Granted. But there is just no way 2013 will compare. Nintendo already has two more titles coming out in Jan. and Feb. than ANY company put out (retail) all of Jan. and Feb. last year. And their support will likely remain steady.

2014 has already kicked 2013's ass, just by default.

Things will be slow for the next few weeks, probably going sub 40k. Donkey Kong will give a nice boost for a few weeks then sales will go back down and hopefully Mario Kart releases sooner rather than later (late March/early April) which will for sure give Wii U a boost. Those 2 games alone should be enough to keep it up YoY for the first half of the year.

After that hopefully they can release Bayonetta 2, X, Hyrule Warriors, Yarn Yoshi, Sonic between May-Oct to give it a consistant stream of exclusives from late Spring-early fall. Smash Bros plus one other relatively big game for the holidays and a Mario Kart 8 bundle for $199 on black friday.

I think Wii U will sell over 5 million this year granted they space out there releases and dont have any multiple monthlong droughts.

Obviously 2014 will win.

I think the big question is whether Mario Kart will launch this financial year or next. I can see it going either way; last minute boost to 'beat' the prediction and give a little bit of happy to the shareholders, or hold it back a few weeks to give 2014/15 a strong start and regain confidence.

Don't know which I'd choose, although it probably depends on what the rest of the year's lineup looks like.

I am confident that Nintendo knows they need to release more than just two titles in the first half of 2014. They saw what a lack of software did to them in 2013, and depsite what some seem to want to believe, they're hardly stupid. I would think along with Wii Fit U, DKC, and Mario Kart, we should be seeing at LEAST one other release from Nintendo before June.

2013 had some good games. Pikmin 3, W101, Lego City, MHU, Rayman, WW, and 3D Mario all came out. Didn't do squat. 2014 is really hard to predict! Kart could bring the console back from the dead or give it just a bump.

From January-July there was only Lego City and Monster Hunter (3 year old port, also on 3DS) as notable releases which both released in March.

August onward had a pretty decent release schedule but a 7 month drought with no advertising is hard to come back from, especially when 2 hugely hyped consoles are about to release.

This won't be interesting. Wii U's 2014 year won the moment Mario Kart 8 was announced for it.

look at the games 2014. Wii U will win very high 2014!!!!!!!!

It can't possibly do any worse.

We don't even know shit about SMT x FE. I doubt it's coming out next year.