What a bizarre way of looking at things, I would be interested to know what your grades were like in school after all a D- average is an amazing acomplishment if your previous year's average was a F; and an A- average is an amazing failure if in the previous year you had an A average.

I wonder if you will use a similar way to judge whether a system is powerful, and if the Wii U has a bigger relative increase in processing power than the PS4 or XBox 720 is whether you will call out those systems for not being powerful enough.

Actually you are indeed comparing the past glory of a direct successor...

Your problem, of course, is that you are basing the state of the WiiU by only one single metric: how it is doing compared to its predecessor. While that's certainly one thing to consider, you are conveniently ignoring other factors such as the fact that it's $50 to $100 dollars more expensive, launched in a worse economy, is tracking above the 360 and PS3 launches, and that it will finish the year not too far behind the Wii itself, which frankly, was an anomoly of success.

As HappyS pointed out earlier, the Vita is not being judged so much because it's tracking behind the PSP, but because it's doing badly in any context. And the 360 certainly did better than its predecessor in Japan but was still a failure in that region.

Many people believe that WiiU won't sell as much as the Wii did, same way the 3DS won't sell as much as its predecessor. That may show decline from the previous gen, but it's not the only way to gauge success. By that flawed rationale, Sony will never have another successful console since they will never outsell the PS2.

Yup, pretty much this ^^

On the topic of success vs a previous version, if Usain Bolt ran 100M in 10.3 seconds he would consider that a failure even though noone here could match that. It is possible to have a successful product which is a failure and a failed product which can be called a success. It is possible for Nintendo to say sell 50M consoles and make a billion dollar profit and get called a failure and that could be because they lost the market lead, lost market share and had their overall revenue shrink even if at the end of the day as a stand alone it could be called a success.

I see a lot of arguments, and some make sense, some don't. But the fact of the matter is, The Wii U has sold a good amount of systems. Whether this is a indicator of the future? Who knows! But give credit where credit is due, it's doing well. If it doesn't make improvements to the system as well as the software, it won't carry on like this. If they produce the games and push the Wii U to it's potential, I doubt Nintendo will have any problem selling systems.

As for reaching 6 million sold. I feel that goal will be very difficult to accomplish. But that goal is difficult for many systems to accomplish. I think in the long run, they will be a lot more successful. And this is ONLY if they get the Third-Party support they need and they release a good amount of 1st party games. The Wii U is a very interesting system that has a lot of potential. I hope Nintendo reaches that potential.

I, for one, know that I will NEVER buy a WiiU but damn its games look AWESOME.

Back to the topic. I think its doing great. Better launches compared to the 360 and Ps3. And I think thats a big feat.

Well i totally agree. A lot of Wii U future success depending on how much suppoirt it will get and what Microsoft and Sony will over for thge next gen. Right now its impossible to judge if the Wii U will be a failure or a success. Only time will tell us the answer.

May i ask why you won't buy one?

Just curious

Yeah, I agree pretty much with everything except the last bit... I don't think Nintendo will panic come summer; I'm expecting a new announcement in the beginning of the new year, or at the very least a tease of an upcoming game

Oh, I agree 100% with  you. They're all necessary for the Wii U, but it also needs a systems seller in spring... I think we'll get an announcement during January/February.