"By comparison, the original Wii sold 300,000 units during that time six years ago, though that was also a sellout: Nintendo is managing its supply better this time around."

According to every article I looked up, they sold 600000 units in 2006, not 300000, e.g.:

http://www.nintengen.com/2006_11_01_archive.html

But I thought consoles were teh DOOOOOMED. Like Ninty is teh DOOOOOOMED. Same for Sony. LOL

I am very interested in seeing the sales reports for the Wii-U games in a year. That will give a good indicator for how good the system is really doing. Units may sell but it is the games that matter in the long run.

EDIT: I would also love to see how much the losses are for Ninty. They are selling it at a loss right?

Near sell out ... Every store in my area has the basic edition of the system. The deluxe sold out but no one wants the basic system apparently. To me that says the core Nintendo lovers are still alive and well but no one else really cares.

I love Nintendo and I'm hoping for the best but this isn't a Wiipeat just yet.

More interested to see what's happening next year when the "competition" hits. Though, yes obviously the "DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!" Predictions are all bullshit designed to get you to click on the story. I did it, I know it works!

I have the deluxe wii u and nsmb u + some e-shop games.

What i don't know is how many wii u games i can play seeing as how even nano assault neo lacks southpaw.

I simply put the game on the gamepad and use the gamepad upside down instant southpaw but if you leave the game on the hdtv southpaw flight and guns are both inverted a patch needs to come out as it's a great stardust /geomitry wars style game though both of those games offered southpaw .

As far as nsmb u or rayman i can play those but give me twin or dual analog and i better have my custom scheme or i simply can't play it.

Next week article from gaming anaylst/experts "dedicated gaming device and consoles are doomed again all hail Apple!"

are there any consoles that don't do these kinds of numbers in the first week?

It shows that if you want metroid,mario or zelda then you know that nintendo hardware is sold because of nintendo games.

Even with ms having chief and marcus to carry xbox and sony having many more franchises but saddled with debt nintendo alone has both significant ip and a war chest of funds.

The next gen should be a very interusting place.....and hopefully everyone supports backwards compatibility and a full custom slot overriding in game controls.

Nintendo is known for delivering quality hardware and software and people know it so nearly selling out isn't really a surprise. Now with that said the true test of the Wii U is yet to come but I'm far from ready to count them out.

TB said that batman arkham city was running at 15FPS. Its pretty pathetic considering it runs better on 7 year old hardware, I cant understand why anyone would ever buy a nintendo hardware again (they should go the way of sega and just make mario, zelda and metroid forever).

This seems to say more about Nintendo and the draw they still possess than a general statement about consoles.

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"[...] there's still demand for new consoles." DOH, oh really?! I'm sorry, but this is such a ... 'obvious' statement.

The whole game industry is waiting for the next generation of consoles and so is the gaming community. It's been almost 8 years since the initial PS3 and 360 launches. Just take a look at CoD:Black Ops 2 and compare it to Crysis 3. It aches almost. Genres are stagnating in innovation. It's about time for a new generation of consoles to boost the development of new IP's and reimagening - not re-re-and-reanimating - established ones.

I'm SICK of the endless stories indicating the 'obviousness' that the console market is 'dying', 'at deaths door' or that 'players have eternally moved on to more convenient and 'cheap' tablet gaming'. This maleficent mix of 'analyst' and 'journalist' scaremongers are all operating in complete disregard of historical data. The fact of the matter is that console cycles naturally wane after 5-6 years. The fact is we're in year 7 of a stretched cycle. The fact is if Apple didn't exist we'd still be seeing this slimming of the generation but the industry press wouldn't be celebrating the deaths of their benefactors. Scratch that, they probably would. But the point is declaring that Android/iPad has killed the console space and Nintendo should eff off into oblivious oblivion is no more reasonable in 2012 than saying the iPhone killed the 6 year old 66MHz Nintendo DS in 2010.

I.E. in light of the NES, SNES, PSX, PS2, Gameboy and GBA, it's really dumb and I wish people would pay these people less for spouting inanity.

The market is speaking: 'success' of one platform does not = death of all others. This is not that zero sum game.

Yeah right, lets see how it does in Europe with the inflated prices (which werent the case with the Wii FYI).

I see a lot of people saying "console market" and to a degree I think the Wii U is a console at its core. But now having one in my living room I think it is a little more than just a console. Considering the fact that the argument for games declining is because the tablet / smartphone market is taking over I think Nintendo took a new stake with this device. I like the fact that the Wii U can play games in HD, and that is cool they caught up but I don't think its the main draw. I also don't believe that the tech built in to the pad is the main draw either. I think the main draw is the social connection and how it all works together in one device that gives us the best of HD and the technology of a gaming tablet. It's not perfect right now, but its going to be the point that sells most of the systems later on.

I think Nintendo ask themselves a question perhaps internally about what drives people to the smartphone and tablets. It wasn't the games because quality games happened later on in the lifecycle of those devices. It was the ability to be socially connected by not needing to make a phone call. This happened because of Facebook mostly and the abilities it later granted to be able to communicate freely with others without having to worry about extra monthly charges on a monthly fee. Because so many people gravitated to the smartphones and tablets, and because of the way Facebook became a nucleus for that gravitation, Nintendo (and really the gaming industry as a whole) needed a way to make that same connection without the hassles of being too technical.

In the three plus days I have had my Wii U I have done something I really never do much with a video game console. I have turned it on first, used it to turn on my TV and cable box second, and then checked the MiiVerse and internet. To be honest, I have yet to use it to actually play a game on a HD TV screen because I have used the controller as my gaming screen while I or my family watches TV. To be perfectly honest, if any of my family where gamers; and non of them are but if they where, they could use the TV for whatever at this point and I would not mind. It's like the Wii U is a device that finds a way to be relevant without taking up the space all the time. It takes HD quality gaming and offers a way to play it on a semi portable level. No longer do they have to ask company X to make a videogame and then make a portable game with the same level of graphics for a totally different device. It all there and its optional. It makes sense to me as a consumer to the point that the marketing made even more sense after I got the device. How will you play?... now that you have more options to play the games.

I'm going to finish with this. When I bought the device someone in my family began to understand that this was a new system and not an add on to the first Wii. I don't think they at first thought that given the reaction. When I began to tell them what it could do, I think they started to get it more. The Wii U is a social gaming hub that gives the gamers more options than any device currently out. IT was priced to compete with the iPad and tablet space, but only made to compete as a living room device and nothing more. Insofar as I can see, they may have just pulled it off. Time will tell if the core market developers get this aspect, and understands how this device should be used when competing for casual and core gamer dollars.

Thanks if you read this.