Almost everyone and his donkey have been claiming that home consoles in Japan are dead. Yet, these sales seem to surprise the very same people that have been shouting this all along. Strange.
I too believe that home consoles in Japan are a lost cause. They were the first people to accept consoles en mass and now are the first to reject them.
Therefore I seem to be the only one that knows what is really going on :) and not at all surprised by this.
I predicted about 150k SW and 30k HW. Both were for a whole week of MK8 sales.
The real story for Wii U is in America and to a lesser extent Europe.
These are also sales for only two days of MK8 I think.
Sony stated that they need to urgently revitalise the Japanese market with new and innovative software, they better hurry up.