It's the apt time for this thread but can't you see a pattern?

Week 1: 5983

Week 2: 5329

Week 3: 7060

Week 4: 8251 (up)


Four Weeks After Pikmin 3 (Wii U systems sold a week – Japan)

Week 1: 22,199

Week 2: 14,280

Week 3: 11,373

Week 4: 10,038 (down)

An increase of 2,000

First off, let me say that it is an achievement & improvement and the game should be proud of that after all these years.

But like a lot of people have said here, this isn't really an indicator of anything for the time being, other than "a medium-sized game will improve a struggling console's sales for a few weeks".

The same thing happened with Vita last year - Persona 4. Prior to Persona's release it sold 6k / 7k / 7.5k / 13k (but a Gundam game released the 13k week). After Persona's release it sold 34k / 13k / 24k (Metal Gear Solid HD released) / 13k. Point being, a lot of Persona (with a bit of assistance from some other games) doubled the numbers; but didn't do anything in the long term for the console. Vita had possibly the worst holiday's worth of sales I've ever seen in Japan that year; and it wasn't until this year's price cut + multiple anticipated releases that the weekly sales actually saw a "steady" doubling in figures.

In before: Persona > Pikmin in sales figures. On the numbers here actually, that doesn't seem true. Pikmin 1 & 2 both sold ~ 560k in Japan; the highest selling Persona we have is Persona 1 with ~ 420k followed by Persona 4 with ~ 360k. Persona has the advantage of having stayed relevant during a longer period than Pikmin; but it was also a remake vs. a new title.

In any case, what I'm getting at is that I wouldn't see this as a sign of anything yet. What I will say is that the stream of Wii-U titles coming to Japan later this year do have the potential to do something. But I know a lot of Nintendo fans thought it would've started with Pikmin and ended with SM3DW, and I think it'll start much later (possibly with Zelda). The momentum will fizzle out with Pikmin and I don't think W101 will do anything; they should've been spaced closer together, even though I do appreciate that they were going for one big release a month.

It also remains to be seen what difference lots of titles make without a price cut. Obviously not the impact they'd make with a price cut, but hopefully enough to make it relevant again.

Your selective comparisson points don't make any sense.  The advertising for Pikmin 3 started 2 weeks before the release, and as you can see system sales started trending up.  The 8251 sales week just before release was also likely due to P3.  A better comparisson is Weeks 1 or 2 in the pre-Pikmin Period and the most recent week, which, like the average, shows sales have doubled.  Not too shabby.

I'm just noting a general trend in console sales. They're almost back to their normal average already, so I don't think Pikmin will have any lasting effects.

Not to Galaxy, to 3D Land, it's basically the levels that didn't make it to the final game, plus some more. People were expecting a 3D Mario like Galaxy, this is exactly the same situation as with NSMB2 and NSMBU, the games came to close to each other. And NSMBU ended up not gathering the attention that the series deserves/usually gets.

Allow yourself some time of thinking before posting, just my advice.

"sequels to Wii games that are so similar". your words, not mine. NSMBU and NSMB2 are on different platforms, and so are 3d world and 3d land. I also advise you to play 3d world before saying is too similar to 3d land. and then we go back to the other point, what's the problem two games of the same franchise have similarities? the problem of wii u so far is that it has NOT gotten sequels to nintendo's tradicional franchise's, period.

Okay, I wasn't going to comment here.  I was only going to read, but someone needs to tell you.

You cannot seriously think that 3D World's levels are levels that didn't make it into 3D Land.  If you do, you're what Nintendo fanboys call a "Nintendo hater."  That, or you lack the basic understanding of game design and logic.  3D Land, for one, featured smaller worlds based around different power-ups.  3D World is going to be bigger and the scope is going to be larger.  3D Land is small in comparison.  Not only that, but it's the first time a 3D Mario game is going to have 4 player co-op.  It is not at all the same as the NSMB series, and the time difference between 3D Land and 3D World is in NO way comparable to NSMB2 and NSMBU.  

There's at least one new powerup and one new function in the game (cat suit + see through pipe) so it isn't really at all what you're saying.  

So why don't you follow your own advice before trying to tell someone off?