Mario Kart 8 was just 2 days on sale.

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime says that Mario Kart 8 caused a large fluctuation in Wii U sales when it launched in North America on May 30th. Reggie says Wii U sales quadrupled the week after the release of Nintendo’s latest entry in the Mario Kart series from the week previous.

http://mynintendonews.com/2014/06/15/reggie-says-mario-kart-8-had-a-significant-impact-on-wii-u-sales/

Wait for june's numbers.

It didn't double 2013's sales even with the overtracked sales... Where did you get your information from?

Edit: According to VGChartz, Wii U's 2014 sales so far are pretty much equal to 2013's at the same point in time.

So wait were Wii U sales overtracked that week for MK8?

The spin is atrocious

Yeah. VGChartz says 80k for the week of Mario Kart in NA, NPD (Which is more accurate) has 60k for the whole month.

But, like Meret said, Reggie said that sales quadrupled the week after (In NA)!

Wow that makes little sense...

The first sentence or the second?

Yay Mario Kart 8!  It gets quadrupled by WatchDogs and even matched by Wolfenstein from the prior week!  WOOOOO!!!!!!   *sarcasm*

The reality is that Nintendo is fighting a huge uphill battle.  We've just started this console cycle and in an age of online gaming, Nintendo severely lacks and the 3rd party developers are abandoning the company because of its small install base, unique user demographic and limited processing capability.  You're looking at 5 or 6 more years before this console cycle ends.  A long time to post financial losses.

Both really, I mean I was thinking MK8 would have pushed more units than 40k in the US. But I guess I have to go off of NPD than VGchartz

...What? Watch Dogs sold 4 million in a week, MK8 1.1 million in 3 days. It's probably about double the sales, not quadruple.

Wolfenstien sold 800k in 4 days.