They marketed it pretty well this holiday season, at least during November/December I started seeing more Wii U ads than I had for 3DS/Wii/Wii U in about 4 years time. 

The Andre Agassi Wii Sports Club commercial in particular ran here an awful lot even on the non-kids channels. I saw that probably as much if not more than any Sony ad. 

Nothing wrong in that article.

Nuttin wrong there, especially the line about Nintendo not understanding Western consumers.

Sometime in 2008..."Ps2 was a fad, a cheap dvd player for family"

Hi, I'm a vgchartz lurker for the most part. But in reference to everyone commenting on the PS2 being a fad because of low PS3 sales, shouldn't the sales of the PS1 also confirm that Sony's consoles were selling better and better until the PS3, in the same way that Nintendo consoles were selling worse and worse until the Wii? If the two were similar in any way, wouldn't it just be that they were both sales anomalies based on their console histories?

Great question. We could see the PS3 and Wii as anomalies, but I like to think that they are part of the pattern itself. Sony will occasionally have a console that underperforms (like the problematic and pricy PS3), and Nintendo will occasionally have a console that explodes in sales (like the revolutionary NES and Wii). The problem Nintendo is currently having with Wii U, however, is that the console is resuming the downward trend as oppose to restarting it. Wii U doesn't refine the core concept of Wii like the Super Nintendo refined the NES, and so I believe what we have here is actually more of a GameCube successor in spite of Wii U's namesake. And that's a very bad thing. If I were to trust my own analysis of sales history and apply it to the present, then I'd say Nintendo should've released a ~75 million-selling Super Wii than a console which seems like it will struggle to succeed at all.

16 hours late on finding this, time to start reading.

Too easy. I didnt even have to think about it to show how poorly thought out and factless your post was. Opinions are not facts.

Note that I stated 'ALMOST every single Wii' which isn't a lie.

The fad bit was my opinion but I'm sure many agree with me. The definition of fad is 'A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze.' Has the Wii carried on selling like the PS360? If it wasn't a fad, it would surely still be selling as well as it has. Has the Wii U had the same success as the Wii? No? That's what I thought!

People were paying $700 because it was being hyped like crazy at the beginning (in a similar fashion to the PS4) and some people are just stupid for paying over the odds. The reason it got a 100m is because it was cheaper than the PS360, if it was more expensive after the shortage, I'm 100% confident it would've sold no where near to what it did.  Look at how I said 'You also have to REMEMBER that the Wii was considerably cheaper than PS360'. I was just reminding everyone that the Wii was considerably cheaper than the PS360 throughout its entire lifetime (RRP) and this clearly had an impact. Would you want to buy a £40 Wii and save yourself £120 for other things or spend £180 on the PS3 and not buy anything else?

Also correct me if I'm wrong but when the PS3 released, wasn't there also a crazy price hike on ebay? I do remember there being a shortage http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/17/news/companies/playstation_craziness/

Ah, here it is http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/11/17/price-playstation-3-tops-2000-on-ebay/

When you clearly know a post is an opinion and respond with it's a factless post, I suggest you don't bother responding.

LOL someone is really annoyed at the Wii selling 100m

did he lose a bet with someone or something?