im honestly surprised by WiiU numbers. what a bump. eager to see next weeks .....will it be down? flat or up again? by how much?

Yeah just Tearaway, a game that IGN has in its Game of the Year category.  And Uncharted, Wipeout, Gravity Rush 1 and soon 2.

wow! I didn't know all this games will be release in 2014

Lol, you do realize sales in EVERYTHING in the world are better in the bottom half of the year? That's true for most countries in the world. 

Music sales, movie ticket sales, DVD sales, etc. The list goes on. That's just not even linked holidays or religion. It's just a thing that happens. You can't even use that defense that it's a "holiday boost" in all consoles when November is Thanksgiving/Black Friday in the US and no where else. That boost would never relay to Japan. Sales are just generally better in the bottom half of the year.

That doesn't mean Wii U would go from 3k sales to 30k sales like that. That's not a holiday boost or any general boost that applies to other consoles or else EVERY console that was selling well all year (X360 & PS3) would have sold 100k which they didn't. Just accept Wii U is doing well and it's not a fluke, better yet, just wait and see how consistent the sales will be going forward to further prove my point.

Good software drives console sales. It's not rocket science. 

True, we should always look at sustainability throughout the year rather than short periods where a boost is already somewhat expected, when judging the health of a console. Personally though, I think it might struggle a few weeks here and there but the comparisons to the Gamecube should stop at some point next year. The existing library isn't going anywhere, the 2014 line-up has some promising titles and their marketting campaign is at the very least noticeable now. In a recent interview Reggy mentioned how the delay of key titles (and simply too many titles) really hurt the momentum going into the new year. Their motivation to prevent this from happening again gives me an optimistic outlook on the coming months.

At this point i dont think WiiU will sell that much beyond GC levels honestly i can se 30m max. but still 30m is ok and they can profit well from SW and a lil bit from HW. of course HH is another story. they are just printing money as of today

Japan does have a holiday boost.  They celebrate New Years like the west celebrates Christmas.

Okay. Prove it. Find sales from multiple stores and different industries including gaming. Oh and a commercial or two supporting this holiday event would be nice too. I mean, it's a "holiday boost" it obviously has to have promotion and actual discounts, right?

I'll wait... 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_New_Year
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukubukuro
http://gojapan.about.com/cs/japaneseholidays/a/newyearday.htm
http://www.japanvisitor.com/japan-travel/japan-residents/hatsuuri
http://www.toddjayleonard.com/Todd_Jay_Leonard/New_Years_in_Japan_is_celebrated_like_Christmas,_Blog_Archives.html
http://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/japan.shtml
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2011/12/17/7-reasons-new-years-is-the-best-time-to-experience-japan/

As for Japanese advertisements, that's a little tough to search for since I can't type Japanese.

I assumed that everyone with some interest in sales and video games already knew this. Apparently not. (Not directed at you, of course).

Japan always gets a nice boost this time of the year and usually has a pretty good January as well, it's not very far removed the shopping patterns in the West this time of year. Which is good, holidays are the best time in here!