Another week, another set of overall unsurprising circumstances.
PS4 doing a little better than I thought but I think anyone expecting great things in stable, weekly numbers from adding Japan to the mix will be rather disappointed. First weeks should be good but it won't add terribly much lifetime. Impressive none the less though.
3DS down by almost 10% globally yoy despite a massive rise yoy in NA, Japan is really becoming a wasteland for all consoles. Still doing good numbers but I just can't shake the image of all those who proclaimed it would sell as much as, or even more than, the DS (the "tracking above launches aligned charts" crowd of yore).
One is not doing hot in Europe, which was expected when we saw even the UK not embracing it. Dat Kinect sabotage, I honestly cannot fathom who made the decision to make Kinect mandatory. With the vast majority of the Wii's customer base gone to tablets and phones; who ever thought it was a good idea to implement the one device on 360 that aimed for the same crowd and make it mandatory, screwing with pricing, image and leaving a severe lack of justification for it as a gaming device. Should increase in NA and do well there, I expect more than 60% of its lifetime sales to come from this region.
PS3 dropping fast as hell, just like I expected (down from over 170k last year), I hope no one is still chanting about the elusive 100 million mark, come 2015; the PS3 will be lucky to scrape together 2-3 million sales for the CY. Still; Sony's insistence that the PS3 was "future proof" seems to be the only piece of hyperbole from the 7th gen that held somewhat true.
Wii U up yoy as expected, I find it somewhat funny that people are treating a 2nd year rise as an anomaly, try to find me a console in the past 20 years that didn't improve upon its first year on the market. I think my 10 million year-end number will hit fairly close to home with a decent holiday and a few spikes here and there due to a couple of actual heavy hitters (mainly MK and Smash). Hyrule Warriors, Bayonetta and X though... don't hold your breath. X and Hyrule should help Japanese sales, but this is such a weak region anyway so the overall global tally won't be affected greatly by it. Bayonetta 2 will be an obscure event at best.
Vita is, well, alive at least. Not destined for a great future and part of the one gaming market that is crashing the hardest and will show the biggest contraction. They should drop this thing and pour the resources into the Experia line instead; that has an actual chance of making a difference down the line.
360 in its death throes this year, being one year older and still priced fairly high for such old hardware won't help either. The 7th generation is really coming to an end this year, I think the 360 will completely vanish from the map in 2015, which is still really impressive considering the meager efforts of the original xbox and the 2005 launch.
PSP and Wii: shaite, more or less. 
