Almost everyone and his donkey have been claiming that home consoles in Japan are dead. Yet, these sales seem to surprise the very same people that have been shouting this all along. Strange.

I too believe that home consoles in Japan are a lost cause. They were the first people to accept consoles en mass and now are the first to reject them.

Therefore I seem to be the only one that knows what is really going on :) and not at all surprised by this.

I predicted about 150k SW and 30k HW. Both were for a whole week of MK8 sales.

The real story for Wii U is in America and to a lesser extent Europe.

These are also sales for only two days of MK8 I think.

Sony stated that they need to urgently revitalise the Japanese market with new and innovative software, they better hurry up.

The way I see it, and I may be wrong, the lack of greater boost suggests that there's no way the wiiu can do even relatively well in Japan at this point. Just like with psvita in the west when great games come out and they sell quite well, but hardware is almost unaffected, it goes to show that people interested in the console are mainly hardcore fans. Everyone else is not willing to get an entire console for just one game, as the console itself is unimpressive to them.

As soon as you get a negative stigma, there's almost no turning back. Ninty avoided this with 3ds, as they reacted quickly to the 3ds' unalarming low sales, but they waited too long to do something about wiiu. Had some of these games lauched earlier and there wasn't so much doom surrounding wiiu, I think it would have had consistently healthy sales. 

Sony isn't going to do much. They are a joke when it comes to 1st party support. Just like their 3 most recent systems, 3rd parties will be the ones who'll bring "innovative software".
I really want to know what the average Japanese thinks of Sony 1st party.

Yes, cuz no one has bought a ps3 for uncharted, Killzone, Infamous, God of War, Heavy Rain, Gran Turismo and the Last of Us. Even if you personally don't like ps exclusives, calling the 1st party support a joke" is silly to say the least.

You are aware of which thread we are in, right? 

I am. Are you? How is Gran Turismo a joke exactly? All you're trying to do is downplay the success of ps consoles by attributing it solely to 3rd parties, as if 1st party support is non existant.