The ipad is hip. It's just a tablet. I mean we can spin hip any way we want to. Do you remember when MS tried to make a tablet and it was unhip and royally failed? I do!

Yes, the U attempted to cater to the core, but it was bad timing. The core needs to be catered to, but only once the platform had established its success. They missed the opportunity on the Wii, they should have waited to make it a reality on the U.

Now, luckily they are remedying that situation. True the controller keeps the pricepoint up, but the low performance keeps it down and I wouldn't be surprised to see Nintendo pull a 3DS on the U to make it affordable and incur a small loss, all the while pushing the U to low-cost so as to return to profitability quickly. The padlet is a necessary value add. True that it being single-touch is a let-down to many consumers, at the same time that reality is acceptable due to the DS' success with similar technology.

As for Japan, that's a completely different beast, but still the market for the U is at least that of the Wii, and given the popularity of 3DS software, with the U following in that pattern we can see a successful U even there. But the true win region of the U will be the US and Europe over time, where home consoles are much more saught after relatively to portables and japan.

I won't say you don't make good points, but yes I see the 3DS and U resurge in the near future due to success with families, good price & good software and the holidays. The price still may be a bit steep on the U, so that may hinder a bit. But if holiday 2013/early 2014 doesn't cause the U to jump back then holiday 2014/early 2015 will. And if that doesn't then I'll say the U is dead.

Okay, you say you took a random week because consoles are being artificially boosted due to a game... then ignore the fact wii u got a game and price drop.

Also, yes if 9k got boosted by 685% then it would reach 50k... but it really doesnt work like that because percentages are harder to increase at higher numbers... you just cant compare it like that

I was responding to where he said it's boost would still put it below regular current console sales in the UK which was false and I proved my point by taking a random but still recent week. obviously, im not dumb, the wiiU is currently under the effect of the WW bundle, but it is still nonetheless a pretty damn good boost for an HD remake. Please don't bring me the pricecut argument, the wiiU was selling for as low as 250$ in Europe for quite some time, we can all safely say that most of this boost, if not all of it, came from the WW release/bundle.

Sorry, but you think retailers can afford to reduce the price by that much when buying it at a certain price and when nintendo lowers the price for retail you dont think retail will lower it more?