The Wii U is selling not too shabby if launches are aligned. Wii U not doomed confirmed!

Any side can claim victory if they want to skew numbers.

The WiiU certainly had a good launch in November/December. However, its abysmal January and February sales are likely far more indicative of where its going to be until major 1st party support shows up.

I'd say that its trending towards failure. It can absolutely change course, but Nintendo has to push software and maybe even a price cut to change its fortunes. If it doesn't act quickly and properly, even fewer people will be able to defend it. If it can't match the PS3/X360 sales by the end of the year (launches aligned), then its going to end up with a very poor performance.

If it does less than PS3/360, people will defend it by saying "..But the 360/PS3 sold 70 million units each with these launches! The WiiU is right there!" without taking the context in that the WiiU is going to be pidgeonholed as gravely inferior to next-gen machines (essentially, the Dreamcast of a 2-horse race).

Flawed comparison considering it is missing many things like not globally launched and more expensive consoles. The main point is no matter how good sales are for the first 2-3 weeks it doesn't matter if every other week after that it is horrible and the competition did better and still does better.. Trying to spin numbers and downplay that to make it sound not so bad doesn't work.

If we try to mask the stench of feces with Febreeze, it'll only work for a little while.

Trying to mask the utter failure (week after week) that is the Wii U with Cumulative Graphs will only work for awhile. Nintendo must get games out for the system, there is no question. There is no way anyone can argue that point. The Wii U needs games, or it will flat line and drop below PS3 and XB360.

Lol your right. guess I was being hypocritical 

all this crap about the wiiu not being a success in the long-term and it hurting for 3rd party support as well, better be prepared to eat a ton of crow . when nintendo proves u wrong in due time.......
just like the ps3 sales being bad to ok for awhile as well in the us after it launched , why because of price and lack of games. doesnt this sound familiar to what ppl are saying about the wiiu now. the ps3 turned out to be a success and prove alot of ppl wrong in the end, get the point now ppl . a post launch being bad doesnt spell doom and gloom at all, just like every game system to release ( except the wii being a curve ball to the norm ) can have a turn around and be a success.

Well it's getting Pikmin 3 in April or May.

Its also getting Bayonetta 2 in that time.

But it's getting great 3rd Party support with Monster Hunter 3 Definitive version & Lego City Undercover 1 (the 3DS gets the prequel)

So lets see how Lego Grand Theft Auto & Monster Hunter 3 definitive does, follow by Pikmin 3 & Bayonetta 2.

People don't like to have a system that collects dust.

Wii U hardware sales are actually over 3 million, maybe 3.5 million now.

How much hardware do you think each game is going to move? We're looking at a >100,000 unit discrepency each month before the holidays. That's a pretty large amount to make up with 4 pieces of software, with few of them likely to hit 1 million units or more.

I don't think the Vita or the Wii U are dead. I'm sure Sony and Nintendo can fix the Vita and Wii U.