With 3 mil already in the bag, 4 mil is easily obtainable by March.

Psh, only 14 billion yen. Get out of here! Can't even by a droid army with that kinda money... well maybe a little one

Nintendo is going to sell regardless

I'm not surprised. But still, that is a ton of sales.

I imagine the Wii-U will really start picking up once they start pumping out their major IPs out. Wind Waker and Pikmin 3 will probably do wonders for them later this year.

Honeymoon is over. Wonder if the limited selection of games for Q1 2013 has anything to do with it?

Unsurprising... No one that I know (outside of gioers) has one and many aren't even aware that it exists still.

So is this the start of a repeat history of Sega?

Hey, a little short of expections, oh well. As long as they are making profit and not losing money, that's what matters. Plus, I'm expecting more sales later on after more game releases. I mean yeah, it's sold about half the amount that Wii did in the same time period, probably because the casual crowd isn't interested.

It's okay Nintendo, I'll buy a Wii U soon.

They would probably be selling better if they didn't shove software further down the calender constantly. It is the price we pay and they pay for going for that bug free out of the box standard.

Could be a lot worse. And with many promising games on the horizon, I expect things to look better for the Wii U as the year drags on.

That's like people talking about Apple cutting their forecasts here recently, and then realizing that Apple still is about 56% of the smartphone market lol. I mean these #'s are easily attainable, and they're still planning on making more money even with the forecast #'s down. Also with all the great titles on the horizon, and people EXPECTING a price drop with the new systems coming they will definitely make a killing this year. Since I bought a Wii U at launch I will probably wait a while before I get the new PS4/Xbox720 and see how all of that goes. I own a PS3 and 360 and love both of them to death, but I'm just going to see what each console can do etc... before I make that purchase. Heck I will probably even wait for a price drop on them to be honest since I have a Wii U and a gaming PC for the time being.

The way Nintendo marketed the Wii U was so baffling, it was hard not to see it sell below expectations.

least theres still in the green .. if they had more games that weren't ports of things already released at launch for wii u i think it'd have sold more .  and 3ds while picking up is still light on games alot of ppl want ( even tho i'm happy with mine).

Has Monster Hunter Ultimate came out for Wii U in Japan yet? If not, and if Nintendo counts the END of March as their goal then they will EASILY be able to hit 4 million units. Other than that they still have quite a few great games in the upcoming months, ESPECIALLY for 3DS.

" but now this figure is down to four million. Numbers for the 3DS handheld have also been adjusted to 15 million down from 18.5 million." Even 4 million would be more than most launches, and nobody should be worrying about 3ds