That is an ignorant belief. The games would have to be more addictive than herion.

obviously you 2 are biased the otherway.

but if they sell 200 units in those countries each it still is a boost

You clearly haven't been on these forums lately, almost every nintendo fan has assured us the PS4 will never outsell Wii-U and once these system sellers come out Wii-U will skyrocket.  So my beliefs are not ignorant but inevitable.

This year week 52 had Sunday, Monday and Christmas Eve (i.e 3 huge shopping days) whereas last year only Sunday and Christmas Eve so yes, expect drops to be lower this week than last year but higher next week.

Hopium.   I do not disagree with most of that, but I am saying the Mario kart and Smash sales will mirror the gamecube making it a lot less significant to the whole market as were these games significance on the Wii .

I also think the ones sales will drop due to price after the first six months or so (completely arbitrary guess) as the most enthusiastic gamers that do not care about price will have bought the console. The more price contious consumers will not be as motivated to buy the most expensive machine.

Eh, wait until the Holidays are well and truely done. When we know that pent up demand has been met and one or both arent struggling to keep up with said demand. Right now the hardware sales dont really matter. Theyre selling what theyre producing. Look at the Wii U launch and how well it was seemingly doing, right up until we hit January and it tanked hard.

That said, even tying with Xbox One in America will be seen as a pretty big win for Sony after the bloodbath that was 360 vs PS3 there. Going by VGChartz numbers they currently hold a ~200k lead in the main Xbox stronghold. Sony will be more than happy with that while the rest of the world is choosing PS4.

Almost two thirds of the Xbox One sales are coming from the US alone. When the holiday season is no more and we start to see the huge drops, the rest of the world simply arent going to be buying Xbox One in any meaningful number. Its already posting relatively poor numbers outside of the US. I think its gonna be quite similar to what we saw with Wii U sales wise up until Titanfall, where it will see a modest boost.

And talking about countries yet to have a release, lets not forget what PS4 has in February shall we?

@michael-5

Not much more to add except my belief that the Wii U will not have much higher sales this year then they had last year. And, I am aware of most of what you state so it is not worth writing an essay on well known things.