It's a fairly pointless endeavor comparing the two.
Wii was a brand new type of gaming tech, with a massively popular killer app in Wii Sports that was pushing units like crazy. So much so that I couldn't find one available in my area until February 2007.
Wii U does not have the "newness" factor of the motion control craze on it's side, nor did it have anything like a Wii Sports that "Everybody had to have". Not only that, but Wii did not have a massive software drought in it's first year. In fact, just the opposite occured, with the system averaging almost 1 Nintendo published title per month in it's first year on the market, and that's to say nothing of a flood of third party software that also came out in it's first year, because Wii was "the next big thing" and everybody wanted a piece.
So they're honestly two totally different situations. Wii's meteoric rise will likely never happen again, for any company.
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