It's slightly underperforming but nowhere near the disaster that is the PS Vita!!!

It would be underperforming with a decent line up. In japan, it has had no releases since december. lol. Why would people buy it?

For NSMBU? That came out 4 months after NSMB2. My God... that was the worst move ever.

If NSMB2 didn't exist (yeah, 3DS would be even worse in the West, blah blah), NSMBU would have sold way more. Especially in Japan.

Wii U has one game and even that one game is flawed, because it has been released too close to another episode of the same franchise.

So... I say it's doing good. I don't care about expectations. Expectations do not consider the fact that the console has one game.

One game ----> 3 million + consoles sold = good.

Funny thing is: I have a day one Wii U and I have 7 games (and I will get Scribblenauts and Rayman Legends as soon as they hit EU). So I'm surely not complaining about the line up.

To me, this is the best console ever. Unfortunately, this doesn't work for everyone else...

Nintendo says wii u has shifted 3.06m units and 11.69m games by 31 dec 2012. Vgchartz says wii u sold 2.47m units and 4.96m games by 23 Jan 2013. Vgchartz are shockingly bad at tracking wii u software, they have tracked little over 40% of all wii u games sold.

Is it at all possible the 11.69 million is all software Wii U & 3DS combined?

And the 3 million Wii U's sold is sold to retail, not sold at retail.

No.  It's shipped Wii U software+eshop sales.  Most of the software probably hasn't been sold.  It's pretty easy to ship more software than is needed for launch because retailers don't know which games will be hits and they don't know how much hardware will end up selling.

Just throwing it out there since clearly they don't have an attach ratio of 4-1.

What part of "It's shipped." don't you get?  There's no vanity here, several dozen of these quarterly financial reports have been released during your time on VGC, and this misconception comes up in nearly every single one.  Your posts have already misled several people into thinking these are sell-through numbers which just exacerbates the issue.  I mean I said point blank that they were shipment numbers, and yet you continue to claim VGChartz is undertracking the Wii U.

Anyways, the Wii U probably isn't undertracked, most data points to it being overtracked.  We'll get more data from Nintendo in a few hours.

I agree. Those are indeed possibilities. We'll have to wait and see, I guess.

There've been so many rumours going about concerning Orbis and Durango and their eventual pricepoints... It could go either way, but I doubt either of the extremes will happen. Meaning, $400 seems like a very likely and probably price for both, imo. Anything over that would be too dangerous, as in this economy it would be a very tough sell, and anything under $350 would, imo, be too low as to be profitable. It's likely they'll both sell at a loss, but I'm finding it very hard to believe that loss will be very substantial, especially in Sony's case.

So should Sony/Microsoft's systems come out at $399, then a $299 WiiU will still seem like a very good deal, I would think, especially taking into account the points I mentioned in my earlier post (mainly the games). Also, while the new systems will obviously more powerful, I think we've come to a point where that won't make too much of a difference the majority of people who buy game systems. If people get to play 5-player Mario Kart U in HD, it won't matter that there's a LBP-Karting or anything similar for that matter, with better lighting, a greater draw-distance, superior textures and tessellation going on.

3rd party games won't matter ayway, 'cos it's painfully obvious by now that Nintendo never will get the kind of support from 3rd parties that their competitors do. It's all on them to bring the games, as it always has been and probably always will be.

Gosh I'm ranting. :p Like I said, we won't know for sure until we'll find out!

They already aren't making a profit!! This is way too early! Even the Vita is holding out!

I think they should put Donkey Kong 64 on there!