Don't forget the Vita also had big games released. I'm already generous in thinking, that WiiFitU and MH3U (and yes, probably Mario Kart) are bigger system-sellers.

Yes, I agree, but at the same time I'm inclined to say that Vita had none on the scale or with the pure selling power of stuff like Mario and Mario Kart.

Also, @ bolded: that's laughable. Mario Kart is practically the definition of a system seller. There aren't many games that could be considered bigger system sellers, on any system. Especially not on Vita.

MH3 won't be a system seller. Perhaps in Japan, to an extent, but an upscaled port of a last-gen game's not going to be that big in the West. WiiFit remains to be seen, those games were insane on Wii, but I doubt it'll be as big now. Still, should sell millions, just not tens of millions imo, like its predecessors. But you can bet your grandma MK will be a system seller unlike most others games out there - regardless of platform. The DS and Wii versions sold over 20 and 30 million, respectively. Meanwhile, the 3DS version, which came out a bit over a year ago, already sits at 7.5 million.

Updated OP with this weeks data. Looks like launch-aligned the WiiU-line will crash into the PS360 lines in one or two months or so.

Updated OP with this weeks data and also included US as first regional breakdown. There were some adjustments, WiiU-numbers got slightly adjusted up. With these adjustments WiiU already catched the first million in the US last week. Also something to notice: The sales were going up this week. I have no idea why. The Nintendo Direct should have impacted last week if anything, so it has to be something else. The effect is strongest in europe, noticable in the US, while Japan is in normal decline. Has anyone an explanation?

Updated OP with this weeks numbers. I cutted the weekly sales graph at 500K (global) and 150K (USA), so that the trend is clearer to say. We don't see european launch of the PS3 and holiday sales this way, they are simply much higher.

Also as notice: at least the US-numbers for WiiU are significantly adjusted down this week.

Definitely not. The dynamic shows that it will be under both by week 30-35. Monster Hunter isn't gonna boost hardware enough to prevent that.

HAsn't monster hunter already been released for it in Japan?

Currently yes. To be fair, as MBP wrote this, it was January 6 and we had only week one (or no at all, don't remember) for WiiU.

Yes, but it will come in the west in march, alongside Lego City and Need for Speed. As MH isn't that big in the West, ryuzaki57 might be right about only a moderate boost.

WiiU...

Actually this is a duplicate thread but this one is better : very detailed/interesting charts. Thanks Mnementh. I suppose the two above are full first year (jan. to dec.) and not from launch day?