Does it make sense to call the WiiU a failure at this point in time?

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Carl2291 said:

Nintendo wanted to ship 5.5 Million Wii U systems by April 1st

Nintendo actually shipped 3.45 Million Wii U systems by April 1st

According to VGChartz, 3.3 Million Wii U systems have been sold by July 13th

The sheer definition of "failure" is something that has a lack of success. A failure is something that hasnt met expectations.

The Wii U, right now, is a failure by definition.

This isn't news to me and doesn't change the fact that calling something a failure is generally used as an all-around term, as I proved to Talal with his athlete example (unless you time-bound it or change the scope, ie launch was a failure).