I'll tell you why Nintendo fans are so excited over 1 week's worth of sales.

[Frogger]

DerNebel said:

It's the same in the sense that it's a temporal boost, this weeks Wii U sales are very impressive, but they still don't mean permanent change.

Of course they don't mean permanent change, but they do mean potencial change, and we all know that the Wii U hasn't had that since launch.