In this thread I'll be comparing weekly WiiU vs PS3 Japanese hardware sales using Media Create numbers.

How do you use colors? I'll highlight the winner and loser of the week in different colors.

Remarkably similar starts...

PS3 will sell slightly more until Wii U gets Monster Hunter.

PS3 will take a huge fall when the Wii U goodies come out.

Wii U will pick up after E3 I think. Playstation will continue to decline in all regions like Xbox.

You mean the monster hunter that is already released or a game that is unannounced?

Wii U has Monster Hunter in Japan since launch. It has flopped miserably. Console versions, especially HD versions, have never sold well for MH compared to mobile version.

Not so sure about that. The only announcements that drive sales are unveilings and release dates for new consoles, they generally drive the sales of the console being replaced downwards.

People don't buy consoles after seeing a trailer for a game that releases in six months or a year, that would be senseless (mind you, I'm not saying that there aren't senseless gamers, just that this is not the norm), people wait for actual games to be available for play with the added benefit of more services and a possibly lower price to boot. If things didn't work like that, the value of bundling games would be all but lost, this is clearly not the case.

Announcing games won't help the Wii U's sales, a combination of actually releasing them, cutting the price and making good on all the promises of functionality, removing the basic package (which is largely useless and barely moving in stores) might help. Even then, the sales will never be stellar since the product itself is greatly flawed in it's core design, lacking base appeal to both casual and core consumers.

I still don't understand where people get this notion that announcements at E3 or other big events help drive sales positively. Its not like the majority of consumers pay close attention to E3 and other events anyway, and for those who do (as mentioned) it makes no sense shelling out hundreds of dollars for a device with future promise, you buy it when that potential reaches fruition. Otherwise, the PS3 would have flown of shelves with the future promise and some of the amazing trailers and announcements that were shown, this didn't happen until Sony gave them real reasons to purchase the hardware.

True enough but It can give people a good glimpse at what is to come in the future for the Wii U. Like you said the general public don't really pay attention to E3 or any other event like it but it can help with the core market.