Is Wii U's YTD numbers the worst ever for a main console?

[benji232]

Seece said:

benji232 said:

shikamaru317 said:

retroking1981 said:
Does anyone actually have a source for Saturn and Dreamcast numbers?

They're the only 2 that might have done worse.

I'm only counting Nintendo, Sega, Sony and Microsoft though and excluding Mega CD, 32X and Virtual Boy for obvious reasons.

I couldn't find single year sales numbers for either. For Saturn, it was 7.86 million total by the end of fiscal 1996 (March 97), which is 28 months on sale in Japan, 23 months on sale in North America, and 21 months on sale in Europe. For Dreamcast, it was 2.6 million by October 2000, which was 23 months on sale in Japan, 13 months on sale in North America, and 12 months on sale in Europe.

Wait a minute, why are so many people saying that wiiU is selling worst then the DC then?

That could either be from Japan, or weekly sales in the first year? Not sure.

I guess that could be it, but then again, the wiiU still sold 1.8M YTD which is almost as much as 23 months of sale Japan, 13 months in NA and 12months in Europe. I am kinda confused by this. Perhaps these people were talking about Europe?