Are people surprised at the badness? This seems normal, things go down at the end of a gen.

At least you got that one exactly right. :p

To be fair it was overtracked last month by around 80k and we have it listed as te number 3 game whereas npd have it at number 6, so could be a smilar scenario this month as well. 

Luigi 140k April
Lego City 3DS 94k April (only had 1 week of sales)

Not bad really

So you think Defiance sold more than 230k?

EDIT: well I guess that is settled in the post above mine.

EDIT 2:  actually 140k is including digital.  So massively overtracked seems like an apt description.

And NSMBU has sold 770k LTD (digital incl.).

Edit:

That's a decent second month for Luigi.

Shall be interesting off the top of my head if the 360 is 130,000 with 42% then I think the whole sales will be around 310,000 for the month. The PS3 has been tracking fairly close with the 360 so lets assume that the PS3 tracks around 100k for the month that leaves around 80 between the Wii and the WiiU. When you consider that the Wii has been tracking higher than the WiiU I am going to guess and say that the Wii sold about 45k and the WiiU sold about 35K.

My predictions are that the PS3 will be above 100k and the WiiU will be under 40k

Regardless of whether it was undershipped or not it was still massively overtracked.  VGC is 90k higher than the retail+digital sales last month.

NSMBU at 770k with digital sales means it is either overtracked or digital is a tiny fraction of Wii U software.  (at least for this title)

what the? man we need new consoles, those low consoles sales aren't that great for the industry

Obviously ioi is counting digital sales.