Not that it's meant to be easy to make predictions like this, but I was scratching my head a little bit when I looked at a little bit of historical data after making my pick, here. And what caught me off guard was that -- in the limited data I looked at -- it seemed that February usually marked a jump over January. However, I don't know if that's a hard and fast rule that's always applicable, or if the recent data just served more as outliers. Also, I don't know if this year having January as a five week instead of a four week month in the NPDs would negate that.
Either way, I wasn't going to change it, but I began second-guessing whether or not my prediction was really low. A February jump coupled with some plausibility to the January returns should indicate that February would easily beat January. But, again, January was longer this year and there was no notable release for the Wii U this month either to drive sales.
So, the long and short of it? I don't know what the fuck I'm doing in attempting to make a so-called educated guess.
