Yeah... the Wii U just passed the Vita and is outselling it on a consistent basis... After 3D World came out... that's kind of the point. 

Honestly, you're rarely ever going to find nearly as many negative Sony related threads, no matter the topic. Xbox, and especially Nintendo, for whatever fanboy reasons, seem to be troll magnet material far more than Sony ever is. Perhaps the majority of "vocal nerds" on the internet are angry Sony fanboys? Who knows.

Mario 3D world was less of a suprise though..people actually thought GT6 was gonna sell similar to GT5

Truly a remarkable achievement. Are you honestly trying to sugar coat the dire situation the Wii U is in? With the lineup the Wii U had in 2013 it should have doubled Vitas 2013 numbers.

Did I miss something? Are people boasting about Mario 3D World's sales?

Wii U has a small userbase. PS3 doesn't have that issue.

Mario 3D Land has sold 9+ million units. That shows install base matters.

No, according to VGChartz Mario 64 (11,89M) outsold both GT1 (10,95M) and GT2 (9,49M). In 7th gen, Mario Galaxy 1 is still ahead of GT5 and I will not count Mario Galaxy 2 as I'm not considering GT5 Prologue either. Like I said, only the 6th gen was more favourable to GT than Mario 3D.

Install base means something, so does the number of competitors. Both factors are relevant...unlike attach rate, which is the real worthless analysis.

Want to see how worthless it is? COD Ghosts has an attach rate of 7,7% on PS3 and 8,9% on X360 while having 40,5% on PS4 and 43,2% on XOne. How does the SAME GAME manage to have around 5 times more attach rate on PS4 and XOne than in their predecessors?? I will give you a clue: competition. Now look at Assassin's Creed IV: 2,5% on PS3 - 2,3% on X360 - 30,5% on PS4 - 18,4% on XOne. Again, same game, very different values between tie ratios of 7th gen and 8th gen consoles. Lets go to the Sports genre, look at FIFA14: 5,6% on PS3 - 4,2% on X360 - 31,2% on PS4 - 23,5% on XOne.

Your logic seems to be full of holes. To be honest, I think there's no ground at all. It's just worthless. Even a poor game like Knack (12,4%) is able to get more attach rate than any platformer on PS3 (the best being LittleBigPlanet with 6,5%) or even than any 3D Mario on Wii (<11%).

If there is someone doing damage control it is surely not me

end of 7th. Alot are brroken. Alot are sitting used at gamestops. A lot are collecting dust. Alot of people have/are upgrading to 8th gen. That 80m doesnt have the same buying power anymore (if it did then no one would have stopped supporting DS and ps2 and we would xpect all games to sell exceptionally well).

on the other hand the Wii Us install base is low but while it raises so will SW sales.

Well im yet to buy my copy of SM3DW, not because i don't want it but because i don't have the money to buy it yet, and im sure plenty of others are in the same boat.

only damage control i see is people talking about attach rate. You sell 20m console and 2 mil sw compared to 200m consoles and 10m sw I assure you the bigger flop is the one with the higher attach rate