What is more important for Wii U: strong holiday or sustained momentum in 2014?

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Soundwave said:

No offense but this kinda sniffs of pre-emptive damage control because some Nintendo fans have spent the better part of a year hying up the year end 2013 period as a guaranteed 3DS like turn around and now we're supposed to buy the "well, 2013 was never important anyway, it's all about 2014" line?

If its a healthy platform it should have both a good holiday season and good momentum into next year, it should not be a case of either/or. That line of reasoning doesn't make any sense really, I mean if people are not buying the system with NSMBU/Mario 3D World/Wii Party/Wii Sports/Pikmin 3/Wii Fit/Sonic/LEGO, then that doesn't bode well at all for something like Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (which is a shame because I love that franchise).

There's no excusing a modest holiday.

I dont see how its damage control, just a simple question. A huge holiday of 4m+ wont mean much if weekly sales drop back down to 20-30k early next year. I think it would be better in the long term if this holiday is modest, say 2m in Nov+Dec then weekly sales of 70-100k throughout the early months of next year. Of course the ideal situation would be a huge holiday boost along with continued momentum next year.