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My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 80k WiiU within minutes of opening.
thunder monkey: i don't think that's true. the next gen augurs a LOT more procedural behaviors that are more effectively enabled on platforms with vastly greater resources for parallelization, especially dynamic properties from script and graph processing through material and physical behaviors, and which will open up all sorts of new gameplay models and experiences as the libraries and tools for them start to surface.
i've argued elsewhere, and still argue, that the wii's greatest failing and what will prevent it from getting many next gen aaa ports is the lack of proper resources for a higher degree of parallelization.
But there likely won't be many next gen aaa ports to be had. I doubt more than 2-3 quarter get released on average. Much like the movie industry.