FORTUNE: The game isn't over yet for Nintendo's Wii U

[Soundwave]

Vena said:

Soundwave said:

This is a system that can't even maintain a poor level of sales. 100k in a month would be a bad level of sales for most any hardware (even 3rd place consoles), but for Wii U, 100k in a month outside of Nov/Dec would be considered great, lol. 

I said "possibly" as in "optimistically but unlikely" in context of everything else I said, no need to go off on an unnecessary tangent as you did. The Hyrule bump will be small, no doubt, for a number of reasons, not least of which is because its a title for people who likely already have the system since its neither a mainline Zelda nor a bundle nor coming early in the month. (On the flipside, they are actually advertising the damn thing and people may actually learn that WiiUs exist!)

And its not like any of the consoles are exactly "selling well" or that far over "bad" 100k, not that anyone dares to admit it.

I really honestly have not seen any indication at least in the US that anything over than the really big Mario games cause any type of bump for the Wii U. 

Even franchises like Donkey Kong Country and Pikmin 3 seemed to cause a nominal blip at best. If you looked at monthly Wii U sales and weren't told which games were released in which month, you probably wouldn't know which months had a "big" release and which ones didn't. 

I'm not even sure if you can say the Wii U is a system that sells Nintendo games very well, it basically just sells the main Mario games at an OK attach rate. 

Everything else, even Nintendo is having trouble selling games on this thing or getting any type of even temoprary bump from non-Mario releases. 

While it's a quality machine, from a market POV this is pretty much Nintendo's nightmare console.