Damn you Nintendo if you price the drop!


release some gameses instead!

They don't want to show off everything like the Dreamcast did, they'll appease the early adopters with the bare minimum and 3rd party for a while. Then expect a flow developing after E3, release after release after release. They WANT to be in competition with the next consoles, not try to get a head start like Sega and end up tripping. From what I see they both failed to learn (3DS) and learned (Dreamcast) from history.

They won't.

And if they do, we may get some free ambassador GameCube games nobody else will be able to get later on.

OT:  Depressing Wii U numbers, maybe some adjustments? 

The ambassador games in why I bought it at launch XD. I refuse to let another Sacred stones to get away from me this time. 

Now that we're out of the holiday season it is actually selling worse than the vita.

Vita

US Week 8: 16,969
EU Week 7: 23,664
JP Week 6: 14,068

Wii U

US Week 8: 15,459
EU Week 7: 11,256
JP Week 6: 26,772

Vita is only ahead by 1214 units, but it is ahead.  Granted, that is assuming this weeks numbers end up being final.  Of course the Wii U LTD is higher, but it did launch in the holiday season.

Damn and that's with mario, blops 2 and AC3, the only game that could save nintendo is maybe wii sports 2, i give that 10% chance since i really don't think anybody cares anymore about motion tech games anymore,  sony has it now and its not really doing anything for them, kinect is a simialer concept but i also feel that had it time and over with.

Damn, those Europe sales are killing the Wii U. Hopefully Wii Fit U makes a dent.

Hrm wow. 360 to be surpassed in August? Guess I was wrong then, looks like Sony can finally celebrate come August unless MS does drop the price and Sony doesn't, but I  can see both companies dropping the price for the holidays wherein Sony would win.

It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, mmm well twice :P

@Roma How could Nintendo price the drop? Hehe :P

Bring the games!

When the real numbers are on the frontpage, Wii U's 8th week numbers will be ahead of Vita's by like 10 units. Wait and see.

Same.  People proclaiming doom for the Wii U are going to look pretty foolish a year or two from now when the other consoles end up selling even less. I sort of feel that what's going on in the handheld realm right now is a foreshadowing of what's to come for console gaming.

3DS stumbles out the gate to mediocre sales -> price is dropped in desperation and library begins to improve -> console begins to gain momentum and reach pretty strong sales but still not great. Vita comes out and is a sales disaster. Same will happen to Nintendo and Sony in the home console market with Wii U and PS4. MS is more of a wild card to me. I think they'll actually suffer the least decline of the three as they have gained much brand recognition and more popular franchises, but I definitly see a pretty bad decline for home console gaming this gen, if not an all out crash. Main reasons being the economy, the increasing development costs, and gamers losing interest in the same old franchises and formulas, as well as seemingly fewer and fewer games appealing to the masses.

THIS is exactly why Nintendo created the Wii, to ward against this inevitable decline. But alas, people shunned it, and now the industry decline will increase rapidly as anticipated.