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I'm not exactly sure if this is set up correctly but I can only hope it is. Here we have all the full year of sales of Wii U in Japan.

  2013 2014 2015 2013 YTD 2014 YTD 2015 YTD 2015 vs 2013 2015 vs 2014
Week 1 67083 51271
30031 67083 51271
30031
-37052 -21240
week 2 20715 14020 10803 87798 65291
40834
-46964 -24457
week 3 16654 11443 8894 104452 76734
49728
-54724 -27006
week 4 13746 8490 7088 118198 85224
56816
-61382 -28408
week 5 12959 8072 6807 131157 93296
63623
-67534 -29673
week 6
12185 7180 6517 143342 100476
70140
-73202 -30336
week 7
10744 8782 7007 154086 109258
77147
-76939 -32111
week 8 9633 8407 6070 163719 117665
83217
-80502 -34448
week 9
10021 8204 6606 173740 125869
89823
-83917 -36046
week 10
9454 7773 7379 183194 133642
97202
-85992 -36440
week 11
9539 7654 7054 192733 141296 104256
-88477 -37040
week 12
11398 9982 7595 204131 151278 111851
-92280 -39427
week 13 22829 13026 6698 226960 164304
118549
-108411 -45755
week 14 14783 7962 7486 241743 172266
126035
-115708 -46231
week 15 9984 5512 6654 251727 177778
132689
-119038 -45089
week 16 8798 5204 6324 260525 182982 139013 -121512 -43969
week 17
8262 5710 7210 268787 188692
146223
-122564 -42469
week 18
13173 8079 22898 281960 196771
169121
-112839 -27650
week 19
7974 7613 11137 289934 204384
180258
-109676 -24126
week 20
6037 6716 6428 295971 211100
186686
-109285 -24414
week 21
5648 9024 7611 301619 220124
194297
-107322 -25827
week 22
6680 19312 17713 308299 239436
212010
-96289 -27426
week 23
6330 13766 21169 314629 253202
233179
-81450 -20023
week 24
5983 12249 16413 320612 265451
249592 -71020 -15859
week 25
5329 10715 14616 325941 276166 264208 -61733 -11958
week 26
7060 10653 13166 333001 286819 277374 -55627 -9445
week 27 8251 9961 12781 341252 296780 290155 -51097 -6625
week 28
22199 8658 10789 363451 305438 300944 -62507 -4494
week 29
14280 8209 11028 377731 313647 311972 -65759 -1675
week 30
11373 9429 11257 389104 323076 323229 -65875 +153
week 31
10038 9646 11938 399142 332722 335167 -63975 +2445
week 32
9950 13598 13007 409092 346320 348174 -60918 +1854
week 33
12047 18161 16567 421139 364481 364741 -56398 +260
week 34
7030 8985 11302 428169 373466 376043 -52126 +2577
week 35
6741 8584 11781 434910 382050 387824 -47086 +5774
week 36
5702 7349 10232 440612 389399 398056 -42556 +8657
week 37 5003 7062 20891 445615 396461 418947 -26668 +22486
week 38
5824 8396 16033 451439 404857 434980 -16459 +30123
week 39
5909 9950 18024 457348 414807 453004 -4344 +38197
week 40 4001 7805 12843 461349 422612 465847 +4498 +43235
week 41
3276 6309 11594 464625 428921 477441 +12816 +48520
week 42
2999 5293 11658 467624 434214 489099 +21475 +54885
week 43 2598 4273 9961 470222 438487 499060 +28838 +60573
week 44
38802 4696 9127 509024 443183 508197 -837 +65004
week 45
17737 4787 9935 526761 447970 518122 -8639 +70152
week 46
15906 14002 17921 542667 461972 536043 -6624 +74071
week 47
21002 9615 14684 563669 471587 550727 -12942 +79140
week 48
28518 12496 20256 592187 484083 570983 -21204 +86900
week 49
48762 24469 32604 640949 508552 603587 -37462 +95035
week 50
74903 27334 47890 715852 535886 651477 -64375 +111591
week 51
109113 38314 79266 824965 574200 730743 -94222 +156543
week 52
73178 43950 92801 898143 618150 823544
-74599 +205394
Week 53 (2015 only) 0 0 53547
898143 618150 877091 -21052 +258941
Total 898143 618150 877091          


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Depressing but expected
Not much if any decent Japanese focused software especially that isn't unique to the platform



Wow, nice work uran! Honestly, the Wii U isn't doing that bad this year. At the very least, it's consistent. It might even beat last year, especially if a popular Japanese game is announced at E3 and released during the holidays.



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Skullwaker said:
Wow, nice work uran! Honestly, the Wii U isn't doing that bad this year. At the very least, it's consistent. It might even beat last year, especially if a popular Japanese game is announced at E3 and released during the holidays.

I'm expecting it to beat last year. The main issue with last year was its holiday season, it was terrible in Japan. If SMTXFE along with everything else slated for this year along with the extra surprises that its bound to get I'm sure it should be able to out pace 2014 and hopefully beat 2013 as well.



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Nice chart!



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uran10 said:
I'm expecting it to beat last year. The main issue with last year was its holiday season, it was terrible in Japan. If SMTXFE along with everything else slated for this year along with the extra surprises that its bound to get I'm sure it should be able to out pace 2014 and hopefully beat 2013 as well.

 

Yeah I mean if we look at the releases for the rest of the year side by side we have...

Smash vs SMTxFE - arguably the two big releases, the latter has more system selling potential imo. The former is a big software mover.

Bayonetta 2 vs Devil's Third - honestly will probably have the same impact.

Yoshi vs Captain Toad - Yoshi is definitely a bigger and more recognized IP, so it should do more.

Hyrule Warriors vs Mario Maker - I'm not sure about this. HW underperformed in JP, but I'm not sure if the Japanese will care about a level creator. I'll say this is even.

Fatal Frame V vs Star Fox - FFV didn't do much for hardware. Star Fox is just a bigger IP (even in Japan), it should do better.

And of course, that's not even counting titles we don't know about. Like you, I predict 2015 will be better than 2014. Let's just hope Splatoon carries the Wii U until July.

 



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Skullwaker said:

Yeah I mean if we look at the releases for the rest of the year side by side we have...

Smash vs SMTxFE - arguably the two big releases, the latter has more system selling potential imo. The former is a big software mover.

Bayonetta 2 vs Devil's Third - honestly will probably have the same impact.

Yoshi vs Captain Toad - Yoshi is definitely a bigger and more recognized IP, so it should do more.

Hyrule Warriors vs Mario Maker - I'm not sure about this. HW underperformed in JP, but I'm not sure if the Japanese will care about a level creator. I'll say this is even.

Fatal Frame V vs Star Fox - FFV didn't do much for hardware. Star Fox is just a bigger IP (even in Japan), it should do better.

And of course, that's not even counting titles we don't know about. Like you, I predict 2015 will be better than 2014. Let's just hope Splatoon carries the Wii U until July.

 



True, except devil's third is 2016 for Japan.

I really hope that spaltoon can carry it until Yoshi. I think it can do it though, especially with the way they're doing the content it should be able to keep people interested in the Wii U until Yoshi, but they really need an August slot. I'm expecting one or both of Miyamoto's projects to land in there considering one of them was marked first half of 2015.



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Eeeegh... Too many numbers. My eyes can't comprehend

2013 was actually a very good year (compared to 2014 and 2015) for Wii U in Japan. Wii Party U and front loaded sales were most of the reason. 2014, even though had the 2 main sellers for the system, was handled very bad by Nintendo. Mario Kart 8 bundle released like 4 months after the release of the game, and it should've had a price cut when SSBU came out.



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uran10 said:
True, except devil's third is 2016 for Japan.

I really hope that spaltoon can carry it until Yoshi. I think it can do it though, especially with the way they're doing the content it should be able to keep people interested in the Wii U until Yoshi, but they really need an August slot. I'm expecting one or both of Miyamoto's projects to land in there considering one of them was marked first half of 2015.

Oh, right. Completely forgot about that. Regardless, it's kind of irrelevant since Bayo 2 did nothing for hardware. 

And yeah, I think those should make an appearance but I'm a bit skeptical at their selling potential. I hope they're more fleshed out than the last time we saw them.



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Oh, right. Completely forgot about that. Regardless, it's kind of irrelevant since Bayo 2 did nothing for hardware. 

And yeah, I think those should make an appearance but I'm a bit skeptical at their selling potential. I hope they're more fleshed out than the last time we saw them.


True, I'm hoping for the best with them. Bayo 2 did help out the hardware, not by much but it did provide a 1, 2 punch with FFV bringing it up to 8k then to almost 10k before it fell back. It was a small boost but it still was a boost. I'm just looking to see which is game is gonna have the better lasting power.

Pikmin 3 kept Wii U above 10 for a month, might as well say  weeks since it went back up to 12k on week 6 and only dropped to 9950, MK8 did the exact same thing except week 6 dropped to 9961. If splatoon can hold out as long as these 2 then it'll flow right into Yoshi.

Pikmin 3 6 week boost:  79887

MK8 6 week boost: 76656

I really hope splatoon can come close to the impact these guys had.



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