Over the last several weeks since around December, the WiiU has bested the 360 in weekly hardware sales -- something it hadn't really accomplished since launch.

Also, the comparison so far is that WiiU's Jan '14 hardware sales are higher Jan '13 -- if only by a margin of few thousand units. Not all that bad considering all the negative Nintendo press and increased competition in the hardware marketplace. Not the best, but not all that bad.

I think a low price 360 + kinect has been more of a competitor for WiiU than what anyone @ Nintendo might have realized, but it looks like Ninty's starting to break it the other way. I say that because the 360 + kinect is aligned primarily to families, casuals, "value"-based shoppers -- Nintendo's most sought after market segment. At this point, I figure the only "gamers" buying a 360 are those who had their 360 break (or people new to gaming who don't know that the 360 has been around since 2005)

Certainly most casuals have gone to mobile, but a remnant of those still enjoy purchasing game consoles.

I think as MS pivots more towards XOne marketing, sales, and development, Nintendo can keep the momentum going with this market segment. XOne is too new, too expensive a proposition to be appealing to that kind of customer.

I'm not saying Nintendo will be No. 1, but rather a comfortable 3rd place in next gen rather than completely "doomed".

It's not a dramatic increase in the Wii U's sales performance; it's more the dramatic decrease in the 360's sales performance, the thing is in freefall. Are we gonna have these threads every time a big releases and causes a temporary spike as well?

You have a console in what should be a peak year selling 40-something thousand units weekly, with Japan sales for the next week showing another 2k decline. and you talk about being saved?

Wii-U is overtracked. Nintendo announced today that they have shipped 5.86 million Wii-U's by the end of January, VGChartz already has the Wii-U at over 5.6 million sold with more than a week to go.

You sure not by the end of December?

Pretty sure they said at the end of December with those shipment numbers.

Yes, he's wrong. VGC numbers seem pretty accurate.

To compare recent sales of a console which is should to be on the rise (the Wii U) with an 8yr old console in decline - dramatically so this week- is really not fair even though I get your point.

If the GameCube's third place (24m or whatever sold) can be deemed comfortable in it's generation then I agree with you.

The Wii U is lacks the family orientation of the wii so I really don't see how it can appeal to that market that right now doesn't seem to really care for it.

End of December

Agreed.