This isnt a great achievement all things considered, when you consider just how disastrous the PS3's first Year was and how shitty the Vita has done there.

PS3 sold so badly that it lost Final Fantasy and Resident Evil exclusivity, never got a worthwhile Monster Hunter, didnt get Dragon Quest and even Tales, Star Ocean and many others went to the competition.

New Super Mario Bros. U has already outsold EVERY single PS3 launch game in Japan.

The main subject of this thread is WiiU, thus, the predecessor is the Wii. My point is that comparing it with the pathetic sales of PSV, and the rough start of PS3 ain't no achievement at all, specially when the previous console had monster sales.

well the vita is dead, it has no life, the wiiu will never reach ps3 numbers because its not gonna have thirdparty support, and it didn't start off at 599$, and won't last as long as the ps3, because ps3 is selling much better world wide then wiiu at this point.

This actually puts things in perspective pretty well.

Oh give it a rest. The Wii U is getting brilliant 3rd party support with games like Hyrule Warriors, Shin Megami Tensai x Fire Emblem and Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.

Thats good news? We see were the ps3 is at now? Yeah... at 9mil in Japan. Why arent there haters? Because you are the third post

Wasn't the PS2 supported for years and years after PS3 came out while Nintendo literally stopped making Wii's for Japan so they could sell Wii U's?

Not to mention the PS3 was insanely expensive and had massive competition from the Wii at the time. These are really two different situations, especially when you see global totals where the PS3's first year was likely 130-160% higher than the Wii U's first year.

Japan all to itself against one 8 year old console no one ever cared about and one 7 year old console that never really caught on properly there (still below 10 million sales in seven years), I don't know why so many are reading so much into Japan numbers or the holiday boost, one would almost think that they expect these numbers to continue into 2014.

The PS3 was never big in Japan, beating it 7 years in here and still falling way below half in global totals kind of suggests a less than stellar 2014. Unless John Lucas is spot on and the Wii U sells 29.5 million units next year.

PS3 was a real dud. Vita an even bigger dud. Wii U another dud. I don't think there will be another Sony handheld. But I'm positive there will be another Nintendo Console.