It is selling 25k per week
Software sales make everyone cry
3rd parties in general are skipping it, even worse than the Wii
The best third party game in sales is less than a half million and it wasn't profitable
Retailers are starting to unnofficially cutting the price
One big retailer in UK is no longer stocking it

Yes, it is a failure.

Anyone calling a Wii U a failure with less than a year of release and with it's current drought of games is just spiteful and needs to grow up. Sure I am going to be picking up an X1 during launch but that doesn't mean I abandon all gaming on the Wii U as there are definitely a lot of promising titles releasing on the system (Bayo2 and 101 among my 1st day pick ups). It also has not had a fully dedicated Mario title (sorry NSMBWiiU don't count), which Mario 3D world will be addressing. Also the Wii U is still $150-$200 cheaper than my X1 with launch games that would probably be discounted to mass market prices when X1 comes out.

Gasp!!!! I did not expect that from you. So totally unpredictable.

No, the vita slightly outsold the wii u in japan last week

I was very excited with the E3 2011 Wii U presentation. Then in 2012 was like ooookkkk. And now very dissapointed.

Looks like the sales are similar to my sentiment: worse as time passes. Also, I think Nintendo is making big misteps like putting DKC as their big november game instead of MK8, or building excuses for their pathetic planification of HD development. Iwata mentioned during E3 2011 investor's meeting that they were ready for HD development and it will not take a lot of time and resources. 2 years later we see a 2D Mario that looks just ok, DLC for the summer and launch window games coming basically one year later.

Wii U is clearly a failure at this point.

I have looked up actual definitions of the word "Failure".

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/failure

A lack of success. Falling short.

The Wii U is currently both of these. There has been very little to no success and it has fallen way, way short of the targets set for it. Nintendo can still turn things around, but as of right now the Wii U is a failure.

http://www.steigmancommunications.com/2011/04/18/the-difference-between-failing-and-failure/

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_failing_and_being_a_failure

Common sense. Sometimes it works.

Common sense would be not trying to argue against the very definition of the word - "Failure".

A lack of success. Falling short.

Failing. Failure. There is no difference here, as there has been no success. The Wii U has been a failure since launch because it hasnt hit a single target that Nintendo set for it.

It's called a colloquialism. We speak words to convey a meaning, and sometimes the formal definitions just don't fit that reality.

I'm pretty sure you're aware that the usage of a word can often be more powerful than its definition:

http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/failure

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