It's funny because they're 3DS , marketing as of late has been pretty damn good. Don't know what's going on....

Sadly, I am pretty sure that at the peak of the Wii's success, some point around the 2009 and 2010, several changes occured in the Nintendo executive structure, including the lose of Cammie Dunaway their top sales and marketing executive at the time. One would think, that the company should have bounced back but it seems whoever they got as replacements have been inept because as many have seen they have not recovered any of the "Nintendo Magic" they displayed from that time. When the best marketing you have had in years comes from Nintendo Direct videos, then you know your marketing department is in the crapper.

As for the failure to market Wonderful 101, who really didn't see that coming? Especially with Pikmin 3 right behind it, Nintendo would obivously short change the externally developed quirky Japanese tinged superhero game rather then the one internally developed with cute critters and a name similar to Pokemon. They will give it a bit of a push but just like many of their other less successful games, they aren't going to give it the same push they give a Mario spin off or anything like that.

Wonderful 101 was never going to sell. Very hard selling point there. Key is to market the games releasing this year, I honestly think Nintendo don't give a fuck about the next few months. October they'll start doing their business.

                 I hope so. I hope that doesn't mean Pikmin 3 will bomb. Even though Pikmin 3  is having 100k+ in Japan first week shows that it will have decent sales.

Are you saying 500k worldwide or just a certain region? 

OT: The game releases in September/August, no? Why market the game now? That is almost two/one month/s away.

shouldn´t the real queation be why they hardly advertise the wii U in the first place?

Have you ever seen a console from any company get so little exposure as the wii U in it´s first year?

Either they had a plan all along and will unleash some kind of marketin hell (blitz) when the others release or they are the headless chicken running around in circles

I am off to a beer festival so if you choose to respondit might take me a while b4 i can.

The Wii U has had the worst advertising I've seen since the early 3DS days. But that's obvious. 

I'm talking about how there will most likely be TW101 Advertising sometime around launch since it's a month or so away. Not a week, like the OP makes it seem.

Nintendo... Fire EVERYONE on your marketing team NOW...
they have completely dropped the ball with the Wii U.

       The Wii U will pick up eventually.  Make the Wii U 50$ cheaper, bundle Mario Kart 8 with it and BOOM.

300k WW seens ok to me. This game, even with all money on adv, never will sell more than 1mil.