525k units is pretty good, especially considering the Wii U is a new system with a new marketing campaign launching at the busiest shopping time of the year, and only managed 400k units.
I find it particularly interesting that that Wii and Wii U combined didn't sell as well as the Xbox 360.

Time for a price drop maybe? Are they still selling these at a loss? I didn't think so. I still say a minor price drop with a free year of PlayStation+ would quicken sales this late in the console cycle.

With wii u playing wii games i wonder how ms and sony will handle backwards compatibility as with the length of this gen lack of b/c would be a bitter pill to swallow for ps4/720.

With sony's day 1 digital i'm expecting much more digital and much less physical next gen.

While ninty is very happy with sell through numbers i'd love to ban e-bay horders to get a sense of real sales from those wanting a game system not a sale.

I think this is much better than last year but 360 is comparison has gone backward than last year. PS3 is going to stay for good number of years. Next year they got some great games too. Last of us, GOW bundle should do well next year again.

I still personally would like to know software numbers, because hardware is great but software paints a better picture of what people are buying these systems for.

The best information I got from this was the PS+ subs were up a treamendous increase. Just because someone buys a X-Box, PS3, Or Wii-U now doesn't mean they are using it for gaming anymore, which is the point and where companies should be making their income from.

My brother has a 360 and all he uses it for is Netflix and Movies. Which is great but doesn't create profit for Microsoft at all, unless the product is being directly purchased through the service.

So unless I see some software numbers to go along with this I really can't say this is good or bad for Sony. Just that they had a good sales spike in hardware, which is to be expected on Black Friday.