nice chart. Nintendo does have to change some of its sdupid decision making and policies

yakuza ice posts is correct. you are not.

they didnt meet them though. you cant project to make 1000 dollars before nex month so you can go to vegas on vacation then in a year finally getting the 1000 you needed and say "i made my projections"

you and that someone are mostly wrong. it probably cost more to produce the wii u now than they were expecting because of such slow sales. Also, like yakuzaice stated, look at ps3. the reason they keep increase hdd size is because smaller ones get more expensiv. they had to take out BC, memory card readers, glossy/chrome paint, usb slots justto cut price initially. then the bluray diode became cheaper to produce, andthe rsx and cell started making progress in shrinking them. which allowed sony to cut cost with the slim even further. Nintendo doesnt have much of those luxury on the wii u. it will not fall in costs as fast as you think.

Six data points is not enough to quantify a trend, and certainly not enough to establish one of those six points as an outlier. Especially when said points are spaced at near five year intervals.

I work as a Manufacturing Engineer, and spend a good deal of time analyzing in-process data in order to assess trends and potential modes of product failure over time. If I ever went to our Quality Engineering team with the limited data I see in the OP, you can believe I'd have a hard time being taken seriously.

Yeah, a pattern spaced 20 years apart is not enough to be called a trend. Lol.

You act is the data is JUST every 5 years. But the fact remains that the 5 years is comprised of yearly sales, monthly sales, weekly sales and daily sales. Which, obviously if the sell less every 5 years means they sold less yearly during those 5 years too.

Why are people calling the Wii an outlier? or for that matter even using the word.

Outliers can only be excluded within the same family of a sample not the whole family data set lol.

You can't just group all the generations and say they belong to the one family. In any case in a weird world were you can, 6 samples isn't enough to through out an outlier unless you are certain an error in the result was made.

OP is only analyzing lifetime data, which was what I was commenting on. 

The problem with analyzing average data (which is what you seem to be implying) is that it asssumes the data to be statistically normal, which drastically simplies the equation, and ignores changes in growth and decline of the individual ranges of data. The OP's argument may very well be valid, but soley presenting individual datapoints is hardly presenting that in a sound way.

You can't possibly think a console designed to run <35 Watts is built with intent to compete with what Sony & MS do.

Approximately, Wii U is to 8th gen what Wii was to 7th gen.

Are you saying that they wanted to compete head-to-head but were incompetent?

I don't think so, I believe the actions more than the PR that's trying to make you think the Wii U would be powerful.

Wii U fits the 1/2 generation upgrade formula the Wii used, which was supposed to sell to the Wii + DS crowd because it's the combination of motion controls of Wii and touch controls of DS.

Unfortunately, while 2nd screen technology must have been technically challenging, I think we can agree that the sum of two old innovations didn't create something new and exciting.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Production-Costs-for-the-Nintendo-Wii-Have-Fallen-by-45-109014.shtml

Wii production costs down 45% from launch as of early 2009.