"Considering that Amazon said PS4 was selling pre-orders at a rate of 2500 per minute and the launch allocation sold in out 48 hours, that's over 7 million pre-orders. Even if only 50% actually follow through, that would be more PS4's sold on launch day that Wii U has sold in 6 months. And this is juts Amazon's numbers. Add in Gamestop, Best Buy and anywhere else and it's much higher."
It's rather funny that whomever wrote this failed to notice the large hole in their logic despite mentioning it only moments before.
The issue here is the allotment of consoles that are purchasable on launch day. Despite whatever demand there is, there certainly won't be 3.5 million consoles (roughly the Wii U's sales so far) ready to ship on launch day. There likely won'teven be that many around to purchase for the first month or so.
Despite how poorly the Wii U is selling now, let's not forget that it was completely sold out for roughly the first month or so of its lifetime. If there was an unlimited supply of PS4s and X-Box Ones...perhaps that could be a serious competition. However, we live in a world with finite supply, and history has shown us that console developers tend to play it safe when alloting companies numbers of consoles to sell.
In short, the PS4 and X-Box One won't outsell the Wii U on pre-order alone because they can't. There simply isn't enough of them to do so.
