how do you know japan pre orders?

So let me get this straight we are talking about 2 days sales in Europe? Furthermore, sales in North America appear to be supply constrained, at least for the Premium model (just because you can buy the system in your local store does not mean it's not nationally supply constrained).

This thread is so ridiculously premature it's not even funny.

This thing doesn't need to have sales anything like the Wii to still be very, very successful. In fact it might be better if Nintendo adopts a more measured, consistent approach to selling this system rather than just blowing their wad in the first 2-3 years.

How about we hold of on the "Wiiu need to talk about it thread" and it's ilk for at least a few months.

You do know that 2D Mario games generally sell 5-10 times more than Zelda games, right? 

Apart from that, horrible Wii U launch. But their entire system strategy is wrong anyway, they really took the best thing ever (Wii) and turned it to shit. It's like they made the system just to get better CoD ports. The tablet screen is not innovative, it's just a huge DS. 

The system OS is badly programmed, slow menus, huge 0-day update, like they werent ready for launch at all. Wii backwards compatibility and Virtual console transfer is poorly implemented. The system is illogical, you can use your Wii remotes, but you have to control the menus with your Wii U controller, after they taught 100 million people to point at their screen. Sorry Iwata, but you should go. You have also destroyed Nintendo on the stock market.

I don't think they will. Japan is more into handhelds.

The Wii U is currently over 700k WW after and will more than likely be over 1million next week (total) so currently it can be considered a respectable launch. I'm not expecting sales from Japan to be a decent level until after the New Years.

What are the launch games Spurge?

There's a website called COMG in Japan that posts preorder data on a daily basis. VGChartz has a thread that follows it.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=98078&page=929

Note how NSMBU tops the preorder chart, with Monster Hunter and Nintendo Land appearing further down.

The big 3 are New Super Mario Bros U, Nintendo Land, and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, which can transfer save files with last year's 3DS release.

Other launch titles include Assassin's Creed 3, Arkham CIty, FIFA 13, Mass Effect 3, Ninja Gaiden 3, Tekken Tag Tornument 2, and Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper. But these titles won't sell nearly as well as the two Nintendo games and Monster Hunter.

Sorry to be a pessimist here but the first numbers on VGC for the Wii also had only 2 days and that sold 300k. Like I mentioned before I think the problem in Europe was manufacturing issues, thus few units ship at retails.

I don't know why you think the marketing is bad... Because it isn't.
But I do have to wonder why it plummeted so badly. I don't think the Wii U is a flunk, no where near it, but it does need to pick up those numbers!