Japan Sales - Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - week ending 13/12/15

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SpokenTruth said:

OneKartVita said:

Again what has this to do with my original point which was pointing out its not been up every year. You're nit picking to try and argue when my point is actually a fact and not an argument. I'm not sure why you replied to me in the first place. 

You do know he just said up YoY.  Not up 2015 on 2013.  YoY means this year against the previous year.  And while the PS4 may surpass Wii U next year in Japan, you have to give credit that it is rare for a console to drop one year and then go back up.  You can say it's the Splatoon effect but that's a very silly argument to make...a console increases in sales because of a great piece of software.  How exactly is that a bad thing?

I don't want to get into the whole argument but the main reason 2014 did not beat 2013 was the terrible Holiday season it had. 2013 had much better earlier months but the last few 2014 was closing the gap then the amazing Holiday deals 2013 had compared to the lack luster deals of 2014 is what did it in. A Smash Wii U / Kart 8 bundle would have made 2014 easily the peak year. The baseline's going into the holiday seasons are clear indicators as well. 2013 was falling and dropped as low as 2,5k before the amazing bundle. 2014 dropped to as low as 4k per week. 2015 had no such fall. If the Bundles were cheaper instead of increasing in Price this year 2015 would have stood a decent shot at beating 2013. This is just my opinion tho.