Yay, still up every week despite the hardware shortages in Japan - though I guess next weeks will be down. What did push the sales up last year during that period? Kirby and the Rainbow curse? Mario vs Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars? Both? or something else?

Week 6 is on the main page with 40,015 Consoles btw, so down by roughly 2k

Kirby and the Rainbow Curse released Feb 20th, 2015, so I suppose that maybe bumped sales a little....but I'm really not 100% sure there is a correlation there.

I'm assuming the Wii U's successor won't be out this year, in which case I could see this being the peak year for the Wii U. Pokken and new Zelda should be extremely heavy hitters for the console, and if the Paper Mario leak ends up being legit I could see that helping bolster sales as well.

A new Zelda around Xmas would be a big boost for sales, too, since that's much more likely to push consoles than Xenoblade or a third-rate Animal Crossing spin-off.

Hardware got (finally!) updated on the main til March 5th

Sales are quite a bit lower in February than they where last year, but then it had a nice spike while this year we got stock issues in Japan.

Pure spin at its finest. Those platforms had a much more important purpose. Genesis was meant to cutoff SNES not SMS. 360 was meant to cutoff PS3 not Xbox, and DS was meant to cutoff PSP. You conveniently ignore this to push your agenda of WiiUs shorter life. None of those plats were meant to compete with the past Gen. They were meant to get a jumpstart on the next. No company is dumb enough to release a platform that is meant to target platforms that are already on the market. NX job will not be target PS4, it will be meant to start Next gen Ninty hardware. Whether that includes 3rd parties is unknown.

So far so good every week its doing better!

And quite the reverse on the missing weeks, sadly. Damn stock issues in Japan, might have hold out a lot better without them

Regardless of whether the NX comes out this year or not (it will btw) Wii U sales are going to drop off hard, barring a price cut. Once the new system is out there and known beyond the more hardcore fans, then buying a Wii U will be a much weaker proposition.

WiiU stock issues in Japan are going to cut into sales hard. Unless they release more stock and quickly, I have a hard time seeing 2016 having more sales.

There's not much to drop off anyway, Wii U sells like shit. 

Sales will do what? Go to 20-30k/month in the US instead of 70k? These aren't good sales volumes to begin with so it doesn't impact Nintendo much either way.