That is like saying the NY Yankees single A minor league team may win their division this year.... It means something but not much

Well, hopefully it does, because the GameCube did really badly

A price-cut for the Wii U is absolutely essential here if it's going to have any legs into 2017 and 2018 (because by that time the PS4 will probably be $300).  The problem is that I don't know if Nintendo cares enough about boosting hardware sales for the Wii U at this point to actually give it a price-cut.  Whether the Wii U ends up selling 15 million or 20 million units world wide might not matter much to Nintendo now.  They probably would like to just focus on extracting profit from software sales and not worry about taking a loss on hardware with the Wii U and just hope for better luck next generation.

I think people are forgetting that the GCN was released at a time in Japan where home consoles were still a relatively popular thing. For the Wii U to potentially beat it in a market that has dramatically downsized isn't such a small feat.

Yes, I think it's a good bet. Wii U also has more important games hitting Japan this year than before, so let's see how things will turn out (hopefully it can be its best year!).

Shocked that Wii U is up YoY after MK8 last year! Good for Wii U! I'd say yes, definitely possible to beat GC this year. It just needs to stay consistent until the holidays and then, holiday boost will push it past easily.

We have SMTxFE and Harvest Moon for holiday. Maybe another big Japan-centric game announcement for E3 will help?

I will say I am surprised that the wii u is having a stronger year in terms of software sales then I expected(4 titles over 100k(kirby will get there eventually(great legs of mk8 and sbu) a new IP destroying expectations big time(wasnt the average like 52k first week and it beat that by almost 100k then held very well the week after.

You cared enough to reply, keep cherry picking those Japanese numbers though ;)

I just hope Nintendo does some serious reflecting when they look at these sales numbers.

Back in the seventh generation, I thought it was strange how low the GameCube's sales were. Now it makes a little more sense.