It was getting bad/close. That is why I said pulling ahead. 

Still, I was surprised seeing as how the PS3 ended up not too bad in Japan. (When compared to N64 and GameCube. Which is what most people are comparing the Wii U to. I know they are from different time periods, but same goes for the Wii U-GameCube comparison.)

No, pretty much every other game releases on Thursday in Japan. Pikmin released on Saturday. The only games that release on Saturday are Pokemon and Dragon Quest games. New game hardwarevalso releases on Saturday.

I'm not sure why Nintendo released Pikmin 3 on Saturday...it would have sold more if they'd given it a standard Thursday release. (having 2 extra days of sales like most other games)

You must live in a bubble if you think this. WiiU YTD is LOWER than Vita YTD 2012. The WiiU is the worst selling console of the last decade, not just in Japan but the whole world, thats a fact.

Why people never give something a chance? WiiU isn't even a year old yet and even if it was, its no time to be disgracing something especially a gaming console. Look at Vita, With a price cut sales jump up, some good releases things got better(japan). Now Vita needs that price cut around the world and it'll get much better. WiiU hasn't even had a chance to breathed yet. Pikmin is a great Nintendo franchise but a major system seller is something its not. Also when you predict in Nintendo Software, somebody mentioned you'll say a huge # like in pikmin's case FW 250k then #s reveal its 90k(which is good cuz that means a 10%attach ratio in japan) and you'll say "nintendo flopped" or "the game bombed"! Not Cool Ò.ó

LOL do you bookmark users comments or do you spend hours looking for there posts xD funny none the less.

Back on topic the WiiU is doing around about what people were predicting on tbones thread, I actually thought it would do around 80k and 20k for the hardware, was bit off with the software but pretty spot on for the hardware.

That's actually why I said "pulling ahead"... I thought it made sense, anyway.

Doesnt matter if the WiiU pulled 100k hardware....Some users will never be happy :(

A significant portion of Vita's third party support has come/is coming from titles being ported across from another PlayStation platform (or vice versa). Be it PSP (Toukiden/Gods Eater/Danganronpa) or PS3 (Warriors Orochi/Legend of Heroes/Dragon's Crown).

Of course, the situation is better for Vita since there's an exclusive here or there (Chronos Materia; Mind=0 etc.) but I wouldn't overplay the hand of third party support. There's clearly some system that makes porting between existing PlayStation platforms easy - perhaps Sony provides some software to do it.

There isn't such an easy situation for Wii-U. Can't port to or from Wii because it's dead. Can't port to or from DS because it's dead. That leaves 3DS; and I believe the power gulf between 3DS & Wii-U is miles bigger than that of PS3 & Vita (or indeed PSP & Vita?)

Of course, that begs the question of why developers aren't simply porting their PS360 versions across. And for that, I don't have an answer. Maybe where MS & Sony provide incentives to port, Nintendo don't. Maybe all the tinfoilhatting is correct and they're doing it just for the sake of being silly. Who knows.

But I think Sony for running 2 other "viable" platforms in Japan which provides a method for multi-platting games that would be a risk on Vita is the reason it has the third party support that it has. And the fact that Nintendo aren't providing this is probably a reason we're not seeing as much on Wii-U. There's probably other reasons too, ofc.

Here's a free preview. The PS3 sells a total of 172k in the next ten weeks of the comparison.

Wii U would need 110k to stay ahead of it.

Pikmin 3 did pretty good. In line with its prequels without even counting downloads.