social gaming network called Miiverse, which allows users to interact and share games tips.

Nintendo said in October it aimed to sell 5.5 million Wii U devices by end-March. Wii U, the successor to the blockbuster Wii machine, went on sale in the United States on November 18. The company later said it sold more than 400,000 of the video game consoles in the first week.

Nintendo sold 638,339 Wii U consoles in Japan between December 8 and 30, according to data from game magazine publisher Enterbrain. The company has sold nearly 100 million of the original Wii units since its launch in 2006.

Rival Microsoft Corp sold more than 750,000 of its Xbox 360 console during the Black Friday week in November - one of the busiest U.S. consumer shoppingAwkward Penguin," and "Socially Awksome Penguin."There's also an atmosphere of competition and collaboration online akin to those found in natural ecosystems. With the plethora of data readily available from QuickMeme and these similarities in mind, Coscia had all of the ingredients needed for some legitimate Internet research.On QuickMeme, users can rate a meme as either "awesome" (garnering two points for the meme's rating), "Meh" (1 point) or "just bad" (-1 point). Coscia looked at this data for all 499 memes that had at least one featured implementation (a popular instance of the meme's usage) between October 2011 and October 2012. In total, Coscia downloaded over 175,000 implementations of the almost 500 memes.Coscia found that the vast majority of meme implementations have lower ratings, and the number of implementations