Wii Outselling Wii U, Only 160,000 Units Shipped Last Quarter

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @04:36AM from the collect-all-five dept.

rescendent writes with news that the Wii U still isn't selling very well. From the article: "Nintendo's Wii U console sold only 160,000 units worldwide during the past three months, with the company blaming a lack of first-party releases for the poor performance. Software sales for the system were just 1.3 million units. During the period Nintendo sold 90,000 Wii U consoles in Japan, 60,000 in the US and only 10,000 in Europe and Australia." El Reg reports that the Wii sold 210,000 units in the same quarter. On the bright side, Nintendo is once again profitable.

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Re: Ironic by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-31 04:44 · Score: 5, Insightful

But it's honest, which is more than you'd get elsewhere.
Re:Mario Kart Wii 2 by greghodg · 2013-07-31 04:48 · Score: 5, Insightful

Agreed. And they should have made the Wii U capable of rendering existing games in HD resolutions, then the lack of new HD content wouldn't matter as much. The dolphin emulator can do it, Nintendo could have done it too.