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Why can't the Wii U sell more. Sure it didn't do well in the first year, but let's say the Wii U sells a constant 55,000 from now for five years and the Xbox One sells a constant 60,000 for five years. The Xbox One would only be selling 1.3m more systems than the Wii U would, still giving the Wii U a .4m lead. That's saying if the Xbox One was always selling 5000 more a month than the Wii U, never more, never less.

We don't know if the Wii U will retain this sales boost it's started to get, but I think the Wii U has finally got enough exclusives to where people think it's now worth picking the system up. With the Xbox One, the system has a few games the PS4 doesn't and is well known to be a weaker console. Getting a lot of those people to purchase a PS4 instead. It's really too soon to tell for sure if the Wii U has a chance for second place. I'd say we'd be able to make a better guess after this holiday when we see if this boost keeps up and if it gets a much larger holiday boost.