Not like i think it would make a big difference in the grand scheme of things, but for the wiiU it will. Nintendo NEEDS to drop the price of the wiiU. Especially before majority of the games its releasing next year. As Flukey said, they still haven't managed 2M for this year. Next year will be even worse, and even if their sales are mostly during the holidays, don't forgt that this is also the first proper shared holiday of all 3 current gen consoles. In addition, even if wiiU did very well by holiday standard, its still looking at selling at best 2-3M consoles during the holiday period (this is being very very very very very gnerous).

I strongly doubt nintendo will want a potential sub 5M year in 2015.

I think many of the long term trends depend on this holiday season

that is true... I am keenly looking at COD:AW sales and halo mcc sales. If the former sells better on the PS4 then next year will be al round bad for the XB1, if the latter moves a lot of consoles for the XB1 this year then halo 5 won't move too many consoles next year.

MS will drop the X1 price to $299 and PS4 will become $349.

I'm just another stupid zero alt.

I'm just another stupid zero alt.

OP actually sounds pretty accurate imho. I believe the US v ROW split for XB1 will only get more extreme in 2015 as it is removed from life support in markets where it is doing horribly.

Its actually more scary when you really think about what it means for XB1 to be losing in the US. Right now they are throwing everything at it, MCC bundles, NFL bundles, a new custom COD bundle with 1TB HDD. If all these don't let them win the US this holiday season then they are in real trouble. Cause all they will really have to fight the PS4 next year will be price drops. And Halo 5. Basically the exact same thing that happened in the PS2 era. And we all know how that ended.

Wii u  will be over vita

It will be a system sellers in usa,xb360 does over 500k in usa when Halo 3 launched