I see. I think part of wii u's problem is it seems aimed more at core gamers. The branding will already confuse the casual market. But as you say the main problem is that wii u is offering nothing really new. Just trying to coat itself into being something new.

Yes, basically that if we speak about software, it's more of the same for core gamers. But the Wii U does bring new things to the table, it's Nintendo and other devs who are not showing it and the consumer will opt to buy the cheaper systems for the same experience. Wii U needs titles made specifically for its system, it won't draw in core gamers who already probably have an HD system that has a game catalog hundreds of times bigger and is cheaper and getting the main versions of games.

Nintendo didn't do too much to differentiate itself from the competition during launch and they needed to since the system is basically the same. Only to newcomers or casual buyers, this will be a cool thing to get, but even then there's not enough new unique software to attract casual players.

Thanks for the info

2m in 1 month is good start, 2013-2014 Nintendo will show the Beast ! many 1Party on the way

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Bwahahaha.

TTo answer ryuzaki: maybe, maybe not. My crystal ball is broken. If you're right the sales will dwindle in the next year. All I can talk about this moment is the situation after 4 weeks - and that is not bad (except europe). It could become bad, that is your prediction obviously. But I think for that we should wait for the sales to dwindle in reality.

I'm streaming youtube to the tv while perusing vgchartz on the gamepad. This device may just be the greatest thing ever created. You should watch sports with tvii, an incredible experience. When people actually figure out what this thing can do it will take off.

My point here is, the numbers are the numbers. We could find many resons why the Wonderswan sold bad. But that all doesn't change the fact it did. We could find many reasons to explain, why the PS2 sold good. But it sold good, it was a success. So all I saying here, that the WiiU had a good launch. I don't say anything about the future, because I have no idea, how it will goes. I was wrong with my expectations for WiiU. It did much better than expected in US and Japan and much worse in europe. I expected it to go down from Wii levels more, but in all regions more or less the same. So what will happen with the sales in the future`? I have no idea. WiiU might sell horrible in February, or it might pick up momentum. So far the only thing I was saying is: the launch was pretty good.

Well I'm not someone you can call a reasonable poster so my doom predictions matter little.

I don't think you're really unreasonable. You only seem to have a grudge, if I read the posts here because of Ninja Gaiden/Bayonetta 2. But that aside, so far we only have launch-numbers. It is a good launch - not great but good. But I have no idea what happens after here. So you might be right and Nintendos strategy will only work short-term. Or not. I have no idea. We will see how sales hold up after launch and holidays are over.

I think the 3 data-points that will show us more clear, how the WiiU will sell in the future are:

1) Sales in the slow months.

2) Sales in the holidays after there was enough time to build momentum, game library and public perception. That means in that case December 2013.

3) Sales at the launch-time of the competition (PS4+Durango).

It seems likely that 2 and 3 will be around the same time.

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...on the contrary, the Pad and Miiverse have no equal in the game industry
actually i feel its too new for the masses

My logic is based off the idea that Nintendo expanded their appeal beyond their core gamers. Since they have more of their core in the U.S.A and Japan than in Europe then the litmus test for how they have kept their wider appeal is Europe. Whilst Europe is feeling poorer than it used to they are still relatively wealthy. The earliest signs of the Wii U doing poorer than the Wii are Europe because they are the only market which isn't following the same pattern as the launch of the Wii and they are the outliers which demand further investigation.

If in the next generation the Xbox Next doesn't exceedingly well in Japan then I would predict that from the outset Microsoft has significantly expanded the appeal of the Nextbox. The same applies to Europe as well, and ditto would apply to the U.S. for Playstation 4. The overall sales of a console depend on appealing to people who would not have otherwise got your consoles by either convincing them that yours is better or to buy a console when they would not have otherwise done so.