I like how personally people take Pachter's comments. As if he's literally saying there's no conceivable reason that someone would ever possibly buy a Wii U, as opposed to having the ability of rational inference and understanding he's saying the Wii U doesn't offer a compelling value proposition to the market.
Which it doesn't.
Which is why it isn't selling.
No amount of anecdotal "I bought it for Zombi U." "It has Lego City." "Look at all these games no one bought on it." changes that.
The Wii U doesn't have an installed base of 3 million and the only way 2 million copies of NSMBU have been sold is if every single Wii U outside of the US bought the game.
Yeah you're right. I mean shipped based on Nintendo's numbers, but we only use actual sold numbers here when it comes to Nintendo, everyone else we accept Shipped numbers
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/hard_soft/index.html
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/software/wiiu.html