I'm not exactly sure if this is set up correctly but I can only hope it is. Here we have all the full year of sales of Wii U in Japan.

Depressing but expected
Not much if any decent Japanese focused software especially that isn't unique to the platform

Wow, nice work uran! Honestly, the Wii U isn't doing that bad this year. At the very least, it's consistent. It might even beat last year, especially if a popular Japanese game is announced at E3 and released during the holidays.

I'm expecting it to beat last year. The main issue with last year was its holiday season, it was terrible in Japan. If SMTXFE along with everything else slated for this year along with the extra surprises that its bound to get I'm sure it should be able to out pace 2014 and hopefully beat 2013 as well.

Nice chart!

Yeah I mean if we look at the releases for the rest of the year side by side we have...

Smash vs SMTxFE - arguably the two big releases, the latter has more system selling potential imo. The former is a big software mover.

Bayonetta 2 vs Devil's Third - honestly will probably have the same impact.

Yoshi vs Captain Toad - Yoshi is definitely a bigger and more recognized IP, so it should do more.

Hyrule Warriors vs Mario Maker - I'm not sure about this. HW underperformed in JP, but I'm not sure if the Japanese will care about a level creator. I'll say this is even.

Fatal Frame V vs Star Fox - FFV didn't do much for hardware. Star Fox is just a bigger IP (even in Japan), it should do better.

And of course, that's not even counting titles we don't know about. Like you, I predict 2015 will be better than 2014. Let's just hope Splatoon carries the Wii U until July.

True, except devil's third is 2016 for Japan.

I really hope that spaltoon can carry it until Yoshi. I think it can do it though, especially with the way they're doing the content it should be able to keep people interested in the Wii U until Yoshi, but they really need an August slot. I'm expecting one or both of Miyamoto's projects to land in there considering one of them was marked first half of 2015.

Eeeegh... Too many numbers. My eyes can't comprehend

2013 was actually a very good year (compared to 2014 and 2015) for Wii U in Japan. Wii Party U and front loaded sales were most of the reason. 2014, even though had the 2 main sellers for the system, was handled very bad by Nintendo. Mario Kart 8 bundle released like 4 months after the release of the game, and it should've had a price cut when SSBU came out.

Oh, right. Completely forgot about that. Regardless, it's kind of irrelevant since Bayo 2 did nothing for hardware. 

And yeah, I think those should make an appearance but I'm a bit skeptical at their selling potential. I hope they're more fleshed out than the last time we saw them.

True, I'm hoping for the best with them. Bayo 2 did help out the hardware, not by much but it did provide a 1, 2 punch with FFV bringing it up to 8k then to almost 10k before it fell back. It was a small boost but it still was a boost. I'm just looking to see which is game is gonna have the better lasting power.

Pikmin 3 kept Wii U above 10 for a month, might as well say  weeks since it went back up to 12k on week 6 and only dropped to 9950, MK8 did the exact same thing except week 6 dropped to 9961. If splatoon can hold out as long as these 2 then it'll flow right into Yoshi.

Pikmin 3 6 week boost:  79887

MK8 6 week boost: 76656

I really hope splatoon can come close to the impact these guys had.