Of course I am not. I am comparing sales in the same timeframe from launch and extrapolating lifetime sales from there. I don't think you will disagree when I make the claim that MK8 won't match MK Wii's sales.

That didn't work wonders for the GC (which dropped to $99 halfway through its lifecycle), so nobody should expect it to do much for the Wii U. Plus with Amiibo coming this holiday, getting rid of the Gamepad makes no sense now.

Fair point, GC launched at a stupidly low price here in general from day 1. You're right, Wii U is doomed, they should just dump it now and focus on not screwing up the next system.

Whoa, hold on a second. Wii U is doomed, but that doesn't mean that Nintendo should dump it. It's not a good basis for a successor if you leave a lot of disgruntled customers behind.

What Nintendo should do is grow their digital business by working on the eShop (which by all means should carry over to all future systems) and produce retail games that aren't overly expensive to make, but still satisfy the Wii U audience (obviously, games like Zelda U and Xenoblade Chronicles X that were greenlit before the Wii U failure became apparent to Nintendo will be finished as planned). I've been saying this since last year and now I am kinda surprised how positive the reaction has been. Captain Toad Treasure Tracker is the prime example of resuing existing assets to make a new game, but there was no anger whatsoever directed at it.

I disagree. By this point, Smash bros was out, a brand new zelda, mario galaxy, paper mario, fire emblem, and a metroid in addition to mario kart and other titles like warioware and excite truck. I personally think that is a better lineup than what is out now and probably has more variety. Also, you have to remember the timing of everything. Wii got a lot of these things at launch,  and then in the spring and then the fall and then the following spring. The wiiu was dead for half a year until the fall of 2013 with a great fall lineup. Breing as dead as nintendo was at such a crucial time was ridiculous. Early in the wii's life cycle, we knew about all the great titles on their way. We knew nothing around the launch of the wiiu. All we knew is that they would come eventually. Who wants to drop $350 on "eventually."

TLDR: When comparing the software lineups, you also have to look at when they released in the lifecycle.

well yeah. To be fair its not really nothing to boast about when the system itself has such a low install base. As for the others Didnt the PS4 version of Watchdogs outsell MK8 by itself so its def in the ballpark.