Exactly. And there are also many many people who will buy the WiiU in the future and just don´t know it yet. Now they are happy with their PS4,Xbox etc but when the WiiU is 100$ cheaper and the games keep coming in... 

So 110,000 units difference in 12 months. Means Wii U sold about 9200 on average per month more than Vita last year.

While Vita has sold 10,000 more than Wii U for 1 month of 2014 which you said was negligible.

So yeah... lets just agree there's really nothing in it since Wii U's launch sales died down :) And lets hope they both outsell the GCN in lifetime sales!!!

As a owner of both devices, I hope both of them sell much more then the GC! I want to see another console from Nintendo and I want to see another handheld from Sony. So yea, hopefully both of them see amazing upsticks in terms of sales because they both deserve it to be honnest :).

Nintendo's released its numbers and its at 5.86 million for the total of after 2013 and its 2012 launch. This number is most accurate because once again Nintendo is publicly traded company like I keep mentioning. They were at around 210 million dollar profit for 2013 but did not cover operating costs, which is normal after first year of launch. Do you think PS4 or XBone will cover their operating costs in their first year highly unlikely due to the amount of advertising they spent. If anyone had a management job or ran your own business you would understand this.

That doesnt really matter.  Wii u had nsmbu from launch.  What does probably matter is the price of the launches.  Gamecube released at 200 and wii u released at 350.  

Personally, I think the wii u can outsell the gamecube IF nintendo can get the price down.  It probably needs to be at half the price of the ps4 to be somewhat competitive...

A refurbished wii u would count towards sales.  A used wii u wouldnt, but it also shouldnt as you would take away the wii u from one household to add it to another.

also, digital distribution refers to downloadable games instead of disc based games purchased in stores.  Web site traffic like amazon is considered in the npd.  So...you cant download the wii u hardware...so...

Who's talking about NPD? Or are you gonna concentrate on the US sales because it's the WiiU's strongest region?

It's best games are still ahead of it, which wasn't quite the case for GC at this point in life (the only really big GC title remaining was Mario Kart: Double Dash, given Wind Waker's middling sales reception)

I would be inclined to say it's because the Gamecube already had it's own big Mario, Zelda, Smash, and few other popular ones like Luigi's Mansion to help it along. The only genuine big Wii-U exclusive to help is stand out is Pikmen 3 at the moment. I'd wait and see if bigger titles like MK8 and Smash help it sell more. If not, then the Wii-U may end up finishing as Nintendo's worst selling home console.

Look at my discussion with mike in the last 2 pages of this thread. WiiU is ahead of the vita launches aligned by quite a margin. 

I'm not disagreeing that sales of wiiU are horrible. However, Vita sales were definetly just as bad if not worst then wiiU.