Global UP! 5th January

[Mnementh]

Kresnik said:
I'm guessing there have been some adjustments already since this was first posted, because Vita sure as hell isn't more than double Wii-U anymore.

I also suspect European sales on the whole are a bit too high on the whole. Nonetheless, it's going to be interesting to watch how PS3 does over the upcoming months.

It's going to be bleak for both Vita and Wii-U for Q1 though, unless something drastic happens for either of them.

Vita has a relatively nice (by Vita standards) schedule for Q1 in Japan and I expect it to sell fairly well from the week beginning February 28th through to the end of March. If it got a price cut in April, then it could even start building some momentum (provided there's some other stuff coming in Q2-3 to compliment God Eater 2).
In the west however it's just a bit of a disaster. I can't see anything giving a sales boost aside from possibly Persona in Europe briefly, so whatever it sells in Q1 is pretty much the bottom level of where sales are going to be.

Wii-U, on the other hand, has a couple of releases that are going to help in the west but literally nothing in Japan. I reckon Rayman Legends will do well in Europe. Origins did quite well over here, on Vita in particular. Lego City Undercover + Wii Fit U could be the games for USA too, although for the price of the console I'm not sure they're going to be system sellers. Perhaps, I guess we'l see.
For Japan though, there is literally nothing until Dragon Quest X gets given a firm release date. Even then, it's an upscaled Wii game and I believe the Wii version can be played on Wii-U anyway, so the difference may be negligible (or not, DQ is still massive in Japan). But until then, Fist of North Star + Need for Speed aren't gonna tide anyone over.

Meh. Troublesome times, three 8th generation systems launched and all of them off to horrific starts. 3DS has turned it around nicely. I'm sure Wii-U can do the same with the right games and price cut at the correct time, but as things look now, it's pretty bleak.

Pretty good analysis, thanks for this besides the 'doomdoom' or 'all is fine' stuff that is thrown in for either console.