Wii U has sold 1.4 million consoles since SM3DW's launch and, it's all going to depend on where sales stabilize now.  If they settle at 40+k per week, then SM3DW is the only reason for that bounce, because its litterally the AAA game to come out for the Wii U in a year. I love Pikmin and Wind Waker, but Niche and Remake titles were never going to do jack squat for the console.     I honestly would'nt be shocked either way when the PS4 comes out in Japan.  It's more curiosity because these strong launches in the U.S. and Europe make sense to me.  Call of Duty was the strongest console seller last gen in the U.S., Fifa was the strongest in Europe.  It launched with both, so it's really no shock that demand is so high.   In Japan though it was carried by Final Fantasy,Resident Evil, and Dynasty Warriors.   They are getting a Dynasty Warriors 8 complete edition but the one on PS3, didnt exactly sell that great in the 1st place.  We will just have to wait and see, I could see it being huge or having a slow start over there.

Wii U is heading back to where it was for most of last year it seems. I had hope it would stay around the 75K mark but that was asking far too much.

Xbone selling 25K in the European markets that matters most is not so good.

Has Vita now become in America what the xbox is in Japan?

If those queues are anything to go by PS4 is going to have bumper sales next week in the US, depending on shipment.

It's going to be tough for anyone to track Wii Fit U. It sold only 22k in retail, but with over 40 million Wii balance boards already out there, I really doubt there is much of a market to move a bunch of new ones. The Fit Meters though seem to be selling very well at Gamestop and Amazon and that's a whole lot of digital copies. We will probably never have a real number.

Wii Fit (May 2007) sold 620,674 in the US opening week (3 days of sales).

Wii Fit Plus (Oct 2009) sold 177,924 in its US opening week (6 days of sales).

Wii Fit U released on Jan 10, 2014, sold 22,801 in the US opening week (1 day of sales).

Puppyroach said: freedquaker said: sully1311 said: Weekly Hardware Chart 11th January 2014   Platform N. America Europe Japan Global 74,704 81,744 N/A 187,997 43,787 54,620 62,710 171,784 75,559 25,054 N/A 106,010 18,919 36,366 14,646 90,758 5,357 15,740 31,476 60,382 28,045 20,343 370 53,188 22,354 12,670 14,211 53,040 2,116 15,763 4,678 32,926 7,154 10,868 386 20,662 If PS4 had been released in Japan, it would have sold between 33K and 58K, and the PS4 sales would climb up to 221 K - 246 K range. This means, with Japan included, and despite the supply issues in US and elsewhere, PS4 would already start selling more than twice as much as XB1 globally. PS4 sales / XB1 sales (With Japan included) Max => 245849 / 106010 = 2.32  (30% - 70%) Min => 220951 / 106010 = 2.08  (32% - 68%) And if X1 would have been released in the rest of the countries in Europe, the numbers would be quite different. what is the purpose of playing the "what if" game?

I am not just trying to play a hypothetical "what if" game. These numbers are based on VGChartz Data, regarding Japanese and Global Sales, and projections from PS3 to PS4. I have purposefully given a large Interval to double check whether or not the expected numbers could be misleading but they are not. I am giving these numbers to show "What kind of a trend we can expect in 2014 in terms of average weekly market sale".

There is a reason why XB1 is not released in OTHER COUNTRIES. Because nobody knows it there. Xbox is a brand known only in the English speaking world, save some hardcore gamers who would know ANYTHING. (When I say everyone, I mean OVER 95%, while nobody implies BELOW 5%). So XB1 has little chance in those OTHER territories mainly because

- They will be virtually as hostile to XB1 as Japan, except some weird market factors (as in Brazil, where taxation is a huge bitch)

- Those markets are tiny, all of them together possibly equal UK or so.

- Hardware may sell in those countries but the software market is even tinier. Developing countries usually don't have disposable income and habit of paying on intangible assets (software, games etc...)

  Even worse for MS, this is only the beginning. PS4 sales in US will increase, so it will no longer be 1-to-1, with PS4 taking the lead by at least 20% in the long run, and XB1 will start to become irrelevant in the non-English speaking world. So, yes, 2-to-1 is the BEST POSSIBLE MIRACLE SCENARIO that Microsoft can only hope for.

You are actually right. I was implicitly assuming that the supply weren't an issue. The analysis is still very useful to show the expected weekly market share in the upcoming weeks after the Japanese release.

What a freak drop. Nintendogs drop friend?

i disagree i think they did capitalize on the audience, but the audience didnt stick around and were never really going too once the novelty wore off.

Nobody is hooking anybody on iOS, people NEED phones, its really that simple. That audience isnt going anywhere because they have no where to go. People dont need consoles, and i think the audience figured that out quickly.

No its not Ninty's fault, it was going to play out like this regardless

Both Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus ended up selling over 20 million worldwide, but I don't expect numbers anywhere near those for Wii Fit U.

How much you expect?? 5M? That would be high number going by WiiU numbers... probably 1M LTD.

Is it normal for out of 75 games on the USA chart for only 2 to be by Japanese 3rd party publishers (and there western developers too)?

It just seems more often lately that Japan's big 6 3rd party's are ignoring the west.