they are like a 100 offers, those reports are all western

What are you trying to say?

But the 3DS is five years old. Pretty much most of the consumers who are buying the new releases already have a version of the 3DS. Though idk the sales of the 2DS, especially since it was released along with the re-release of the original Pokemon games.

That wii u didn't have a slightly better holiday than what nintendo was expecting as you say, but exceptionally better...

because?

I think Nintendo has basically manufactured the last of their Wii Us already, so whatever they have now they're not going to be making any more, probably because they likely are getting bent over by their supply chain manufacturers (Sony in part owns the only factory that can make the Wii U's eDRAM or something).

There could be other issues at play here too, since the Wii U is a relative failure of a product, the supply chain manufacturers probably want a high minimum order from Nintendo, and Nintendo may be reluctant to get locked into too many Wii Us out of fear of being stuck with unsold inventory with the NX coming. 

In that scenario Nintendo then likely has to eat a loss to get rid of that unsold stock. 

Well yeh, which is what I was saying. 

The reason I didn't use the word exceptionally better was because I was comparing to prior year + trying to keep sales in context of other systems. The Wii U had a great holiday, better than Nintendo would have expected, which is why there is a shortage. But the actuall sell through numbers aren't anything to shout about. 

Perhaps they are clearing stock for the upcoming NX, but if that's the case, it seems too soon to do that. Hopefully they restock the Wii U soon. It's losing out on sales by the week.