Remembering also that third party sales in the West are much larger than they are in Japan. Japanese gamers buy more Nintendo software, and seemingly buy consoles bcoz of it, and this is why arguably the Wii drop in Japan is more significant than is possible in the West. Iwata said this in the FY results speech.
I would hesitate to guess that this fact alone means they are launches for the same Nintendo games. Perhaps it is a WSR launch instead but we'll see.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
