As long as the Wii U remains under gamecube levels, it's dead and, while I'm not at the very least surprised, you left out some important details surrounding MK8 release.
If back in 2010 you were to say that the next iteration of Mario Kart would have be bundled from the get-go, include a free game and that there would be a worldwide, unofficial price cut after 5 days due to the game being massively overshipped, the internet would have came crashing down...and that is exactly what's going on.
The game in the past has shown it has appear, the game tends to sell to about 1/3 of console users, but it will do nothing to change the fortunes of the system that came out 18 months ago.







