I doubt that number is significant, with Basic models not having enough memory for it, I also heard rumors that Deluxe models also had to buy a HDD for it, I think it ended up being not true but if I heard such rumors, others certainly did also, discouraging alot of ppl from buying it on the eshop.

And this game is freaking GREAT, I'm 35hours into it and I completed around 70% of the game. Sooo many collectibles hidden all over the place, the open world is one of the biggest I've played, and the story toke me around 20hours to complete. So it's deffenetly worth your money.

So it bombed lol.

Didn't even break 200k. Isn't this a childrens game, shouldn't it have sold on the wiiu...

Nintendo takes another hit it seems.

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I'm not so sure about that...

There were a lot of people on Miiverse during its first week stating they bought or were planning to buy the game digitally...

And many others complaining how long the download took...

For the first two days the game was available there were more of these posts than posts by people who had actually played the game...

it doesnt really look like the console pusher some were claiming it to be.

It's number 1 in the wiiu charts and is one of the most popular digital downloads on the eshop, and there's people like me who haven't purchased yet, there's people all over miiverse saying they Want the game and asking how the game is, think this one is going to have legs

It most definitely didn't bomb. Combined and alligned it's first week is 100k and it's at 160k now plus downloads. On a userbase of 3m and while being a casual game ('for kids', as you put it), that not bad in any sense. This game will have long legs, will definitely reach 500k and has a good shot of reaching at least a million. Moreover, the game more than doubled WiiU hardware sales. I think everybody's happy for now.

Plus its not out in Japan

By what definition is Lego City Undercover a casual game? This is a large scale open world game with tons of collectibles, bonus objectives etc. I also don't think this was solely aimed at children - the sense of humor and all the hints and jokes about old school tv shows and movies would say otherwise.

After seeing this at E3 I was not excited about the game at first but I decided to buy it because there is literally nothing coming up for me on WiiU within the next few months. So far this game is awesome - definitely a pleasant surprise. It's (too) easy to put this off as a children's game but even when you read some of the reviews you will see how much fun the (adult) journalists had with this game

But what's with all the stories about shortages? It seems to be affecting an awful lot of Nintendo games lately. Is this their strategy to promote digital downloads? If so they had better included a larger storage on WiiU... I just can't believe Nintendo is suddenly unable to provide enough discs to supply demand created by a mere 3 Mil. WiiU owners worldwide...

GTA could be labeled as a casual game.  I mean most people that play GTA besides the ones that actually want to beat it just go on a rampage (talking about friends playing in front of friends).  Sure you can take turns completing missions but what usually happens is just a rampage fest.  The whole casual/hardcore split is pretty fucking stupid in my opinion.  A game could be casual or hardcore depending on the person and play style.  Take Animal Crossing for example.  Most would probably label it as a casual game.  However, I know plenty of people that play it hardcore and put more hours into the game than most people put into multiplayer games like Halo, CoD, etc... 

Can't say too much about the shortages.  Shortages for MH3U and Fire Emblem make a little sense.  They didn't believe the game would be in high demand or sell as much so they didn't ship that much.  However, Lego shouldn't have had any shipment problems or shortages. 

I didn't label it a 'kids-game' though.

And what sethnintendo said.