As mentioned, New Years is the big shopping holiday in Japan, so big drops should be in order. This past weekend was also a long weekend (Monday was the holiday), but it is not nearly a shopping holiday in the same way.

For new years, the stores were Xmas nuts and this past weekend they were back to normal.

Wii U will be fine in the long run, sales should pick up during Holiday 2013 with a $50 Price Cut, big games, and a peripheral.

That is my prediction. I am more excited about choosing my next gen System come E3 though.

The one thing the Wii U doesn't need is another peripheral.

The Wii U hasn't had an official peripheral yet. The Wii peripherals that work on Wii U don't count for me at least.

Why doesn't it need one? Nintendo is being very secretive about the Wii U's future and I think something's up. They didn't want to be copied so they saved a secret weapon for the other next gen launches. I personally believe it is Haptic tech, another reason it wasn't just built into the Gamepad is that it would make the System even more money. 

I could be totally wrong but I definitely see it happening. Even without a peripheral, Wii U should be fine. Nintendo is working toward a massive Holiday 2013 either way IMO

The Wii peripherals are enough. They cover almost everything I can imagine...

Yea I think I'll be waiting for a WiiU price cut.

I honestly think there will be one because of what was said by a inside WiiUdaily source that "Oh we added something to the pad becuase the zelda guys thought we could do something cool with it." I don't see what the WiiU has that the remote lacked, so there will be a perpheral in some form like the motion plus. But I'm exicted at the same time as worried because there might be another SS sales low again because of friggen no one buying motion+ for it.

Don't sweat it, Criss. Thanks for the numbers, even if they might get adjusted. Hell, they almost always get adjusted anyway, so what's the big deal? I think those numbers are reasonably close and that's all we get from VGC anyway.

Also, to the people citing Black Ops 2 sales as a proof that the Wii U will forever be doomed, instead of trolling you are making yourself look really, really stupid.

1. Higher entry price (60$ to ~400$, the vast majority of the cod crowd already has a device to playback cod)

2. later release (yeah, only 1 week, but this is a "h4rdc0r3" game, the bulk is "day1 in diz muthafucka")

3. no established community (even if the whole wii crowd migrates)

4. lesser game (missing elite, uncertain DLC situation, missing streaming function, exclusive features are "gimmicks" that "ze h4rdc0r3z scoff @")

5. lukewarm ratings (look up eurogamer sweden, PS360 version 9/10, Wii U version 3/10)

6. No advertisement for the Wii U version at all.

They could revamp the aborted Vitality Sensor and turn it into the awesome VS+, with exclusive features like added sensors and stimulators for cybersex!