Switch has sold more in 3 months than Wii U did in any year.

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DevilRising said:
To be perfectly fair, Wii U launched in November of 2012, and in less than two months, as in til the end of that YEAR, sold over 2 million units. In fact I remembered it being closer to 3 million. Meaning that it actually sold really well out of the gate, and had great third party support during that launch window. THEN the game releases screeched to a halt, and the system sales followed suit. And Nintendo never really recovered, both from their game droughts, or their poor marketing in North America.

Wii U did about 2.2 million in 2012 and took 7 months to reach 3 million and 12 months to reach 4 million which Switch has done in under 3 months.

Wii U sales came to a halt as soon as the holidays ended, by the 2nd week of January sales had already fallen to a baseline of 35k globally.

Nintendo shipped 3.09 million units of Wii U by the end of 2012 but only sold 2.2 million so close to 1 million units were on shelves at the time, so no it did not have a good launch.