Joystiq are reporting that recent NDP results have appeared for the US November sales, putting Nintendo's recent Wii U console at 425,000 units sold - at least for the seven days that it counted towards the NDP (the Nov. 18 launch through Nov. 24). This puts it just shy of 50,000 units less than what the original Wii console sold during its first week of launch in America, a definite success in anyone's books.

Nintendo has only provided sales on one Wii U game so far, with New Super Mario Bros. U selling more than 243,000 units, an attach rate of nearly 60 percent. The press release also details that in the November month the 3DS sold 540,000 units while the Wii sold 420,000 units. Nintendo has also detailed that in its 97th month, the DS has sold 370,000, making it Nintendo's most profitable handheld device with 53 million overall sales to date.

We stood in Toys R Us last night and I held a Wii U Premium box in my hands, finishing up Christmas shopping for the boys.

Put it down, went and bought a few hundred bucks of random toys and games instead. I had wifey all lined up, was my call, couldn't do it..

I'm pretty sure that was 750k Xbox 360s over a week, not a day. The Wii U ran out of stock everywhere too, which puts a hard limit on it.

Man I would be shitting myself if I was on the next Playstation or Xbox team. Launching a console in today's market must feel a lot like "going over the top" in WW1.

I dunno, I think theres plenty of people out there who'd buy a next gen console, when you look at how many copies of COD sell on XBox 360 and PS3 combined, or Halo, or Final Fantasy, etc; that right there is a pretty huge instant market. I think a large part of it is just Nintendo's confusing marketting for the Wii U, a lot of people don't even know what it is, and if they do, they think "Well I already have a Wii, why do I want another one" because Nintendo have utterly failed at making it clear that its actually a whole new console and not just a Wii with a new accessory. I don't think its necessarily a reflection on the quality of the console even, but I think its the worst marketting I've seen since the Dreamcast.

Pretty sure they only care about the 'core' gamers. Hence no update to hardware in a billion years