Which means it'll be saved by Ninty themselves lol. Like the 3DS was and the Vita was saved by....

Also you guys have the most excuses in the world. Why does it matter how much they cost? It was their choice. So yes the WiiU having a better launch than them in the US is just as amazing as the PS3 having a better launch in Europe. Japan will make the deficit even worse lol. The WiiU's global launch will be better than theirs, deal with it.

haha man, then that's pretty bad numbers ^^ but I have no doubts about that Ninty will turn it around, like Sony did with PS3.

Its ok, the PS3 did poorly in the US and Japan, they only want to bring up Europe because they know thats all it did do well in lol.

phenom08 is losing the plot. calm down.

I actually think they should drop the Basic package in NA, it's quite obvious that it's the $349 SKU that sell... And considering that it in its first week it only sold 50k less than Wii, that is something to brag about. I don't think anyone expects Wii U to sell like the Wii, so that's great numbers.

And I wouldn't call the launches of either PS3 or xbox360 horrible, no way! But it's true that they were saved by 3rd parties, like Nintendo always will be saved by... well, themselves :p And looking at the history of Nintendo, they've had much better 3rd party support than even PS1/2 with the NES. Granted that's a long time ago. In the end it all comes down to the competition, so I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of PS720 next year!

I'm quite certain that Wii U already has crossed the 1 million mark by now ^^

What? Only plot I see is Sony fans providing excuses for the PS3's horrible launch. I pointed out the WiiU having a better first week than both pS3 and 360 and im quoted by pezus saying it did worse in europe than ps3. I said whats your point, its still ahead of it. In other words he got defensive over my fact and tried to rain on my parade.

of course it had a better launch than PS3.  PS3 is known for it's terrible start because it started at $600.  You could buy 2 Wiis and 2 Wii games for the price of a PS3.  You can buy 2 WiiUs for the price of a launch PS3.  The difference is it had a lot more room to cut price.  WiiU is using current gen hardware other than the doubled RAM and has launched before the competition at just $50 more than "last gen" systems.  I don't see how you can't see trouble here considering WiiU is currently running unapposed in the next gen.  360 was in a similar situation and was saved by boneheaded Sony decisions.  WiiU may not have that saving grace considering Sony would have to make the same mistakes again and Microsoft would have to make those mistakes which is unlikely given the recent history of the PS3 launch to learn from.

Yet another poster with the same excuses for the PS3, how do you know they wont make mistakes again, see Vita if you aren't convinced Sony will repeat the same mistakes lol. Had a better launch and still flopped lol.

portables were never Sony's strength and handhelds are shrinking especially highly priced ones.  Of course Nintendo sells more handhelds that's always been their strength.  They still struggled (not nearly as badly) when they were $250.  People play Sony home consoles for franchises that don't translate well into handheld iterations.  Nintendo meanwhile has franchises that are very nice for the handheld market (Mario divided nicely into short play sessions, Mario Kart can do a quick race, and they launched months earlier giving them some time to see Vita's price and respond before the holidays which Vita missed in NA and Europe where it would have mattered).  I think Nintendo will cut the price again before the competitor's systems come out ($50 on both models most likely), but will face much stiffer competition and less third party support than their handhelds get considering they used up so much cost on the tablet.