Very true :)

True, sales went good in the whole period. About BF spreading, I like countries that resist keeping their traditional main weeks for Xmas purchases instead of blindly importing foreign traditions (in Italy, but also in other European countries, the week including 8 December, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, is when most Xmas markets happen or have their highlights, and in some places 13 December, St. Lucy's Day, is the day Xmas gifts are given to children, although generally Xmas purchases have their peak on Xmas week or the week immediately before, as 8 December Xmas markets are often very specialized in typical products, so they not only account for just a part of gifts, but they also keep many people away from malls and big stores for a few days).

Ps4 is destroying all hardware wise and the double team of ps3 & PS4 is like a wrecking ball software wise.

Didn't know that... In brazil we are importing BF as discount day, but gifts are still on Xmas. Just on Northest that they have tradition for January 6th (Mage King's Day)

I'm not sure, but I think WiiU and Xbox sell more or less the same in those territories. But it's destroyed on UK, which is probably the worst Nintendo territory.

WW SW numbers for the week are out. It was a great week for PS4 and a very good week overall for games and consoles. Even Wii SW still sells quite strong, despite its HW numbers dying.

I still don't understand your reasoning.

As to the second part of the bolded, I think it's something along the lines of when the leading platform is one where 3rd parties sell a lot of games, then the games industry as a whole stands to enjoy the good times, as opposed to the Wii generation, where the leading platfrom was really only a boon for one company: Nintendo. 

However it could be argued that a generation where Xbox has a huge lead would amount to the same thing, because Xbox supports high sales / attach rates for 3rd party games too.

And before people get too precious about Wii and 3rd parties, it's worth noting that the top selling 3rd party game on Wii is Just Dance 3, released in 2011 (i.e. late in the generation) with sales (on VGC) of 10.19 million. PS4 already has a 3rd party game that has sold more than JD3 on Wii (CoD of course). So for the most part, 3rd parties should be more optimistic about their 8th gen prospects than they possibly would be if Wii U was on top.

As to the first part of the bolded, I'm really not sure how Sony being so on top is good for Wii U gamers. Could perhpas be that it's forcing Nintendo to try harder and Wii U gamers are getting some solid gaming experiences like Splatoon and Bayonetta 2 (though I think Bayo 2 was a done deal before Wii U was confiemd as a relative sales failure and certainly before PS4 was crowned the gen 8 winner virtually from day 1 of PS4's launch). It could be argued that Nintendo might not have bothered trying to create anything new and fresh if Wii U was selling Wii levels based on recycling of generations old franchises, and carry overs of the motion control franchises created in the 7th gen.