specially on Europe, there was an increase of +34% according to vgchartz. Globally an increase on hardware and software, some regions the most increase among all hardware (of course, except the 3DS). Its hard tosay it will keep growing, but it demonstrate that it only need first party games to become more popular. Let see what happen with the announce of the next PS.

Was it? I didn't see anything that pushed me into wanting a Wii U other than Monoliths project X and maybe the Zelda remake.

When announcements are enough to rile your consumers up you know you're in some deep trouble.

NobleTeam360 said:
Was it? I didn't see anything that pushed me into wanting a Wii U other than Monoliths project X and maybe the Zelda remake.

indeed it was effective because at least one game caught your attention. How effective was that's another story.

For a lot of people, that alone is enough. Xenoblade was an intensely adored game, and pretty much the only criticism consistently levelled against it was that some gamers wished it had been on stronger hardware. Well, now we have what looks to be a sequel, on stronger hardware.

:-O your right how silly of me Xenoblade and Project X alone are worth the price to get a Wii U (no sarcasm) damn my limited funds. 

More like, announcements of future announcements. lol.

"There will be Smash Bros trailer at E3."  "We'll be showing playable builds of 3D Mario and Mario Kart at E3." 

Most of the stuff they showed/talked about was too early in development to formally announce, but I suppose they had to do something in order to assure people that decent support for the system was indeed coming by the second half of the year.

Too be honest the only game that I am waiting for that has officially been announced is Bayonetta 2. X looks good also but I'm not entirely sold on it yet.

The Nintendo Direct seemed to be more focused on keeping people interested in the hardware. To give them something to look forward to. It should not have been meant to increase sales now for games that release later.

Yeah, I noticed that earlier in the week with the US figures.  It looked like Wii U hardware spiked 10% despite no new software releases.  I think it was directly attributable to the Nintendo Direct video.

That's some good news considering from all the stuff we had to dealt with lately... ;)