This new found certainty of Nintendo fans that the Wii U will end up 2. is kinda unfounded

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Mario Kart is the biggest system seller the WiiU is ever going to get. It definitely helped but it's not even close to the number of consoles a new Halo or Uncharted will move. For a system's 3rd year the WiiU is doing terrible and it's going to do much worse next year.