Nintendo revises Wii U sales expectations downwards
Nintendo expects to sell 4 million Wii U consoles by the end of its fiscal year on March 31st. While that's an impressive figure, it's down from an initial projection of 5.5 million due to "lower-than-expected sales."
Nintendo expects to sell 4 million Wii U consoles by the end of its fiscal year on March 31st. While that's an impressive figure, it's down from an initial projection of 5.5 million due to "lower-than-expected sales."
According to new data [PDF] released by the company, 3.06 million units of Nintendo's new home console have been shipped worldwide so far. The most popular games are unsurprisingly New Super Mario Bros. U and Nintendo Land, both which have sold more than two million units each. (In fact, with 11.69 million units of Wii U software sold so far, these two first-party titles represent a whopping 37 percent of total software sales so far!)
Part of the sluggish momentum for Wii U could be blamed on lackluster post-launch software support. Nintendo has publicly apologized for the sparse amount of recent releases, but promises that new Mario and Zelda games are on the way.
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replyAndrew Yoon posted a new article, Nintendo revises Wii U sales expectations downwards.
Nintendo expects to sell 4 million Wii U consoles by the end of its fiscal year on March 31st. While that's an impressive figure, it's down from an initial projection of 5.5 million due to "lower-than-expected sales."-
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Amen!
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This is something we all want but instead we get a remake of.....WW. Great game don't get me wrong I finished it after many late nights but it's nowhere near as awesome as ALttP. Rose colored glasses? No, it really is an amazing game.
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Play it on Gamecube, I thoroughly enjoyed that version. I can't imagine myself liking the tacked on motion controls.
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Nintendo really needs to expand it's base by the end of the year if they want to remain relevant while the next Playstation and Xbox are on the scene. I can see them becoming a distant third in sales, unless TVii and similar features really manage to grab the casual crowd, their first party games won't be enough.
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which message board from the wii launch did you copy/paste this from
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haven't seen ruskisnipah in a while..wonder how he's doing
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Not until they have some reason to buy the system will I pick one up. NSMB alone isn't compelling enough, when almost every other title worth having is on the PS3 or 360, and probably 6 months beforehand.
On the horizon, there's things I want the WiiU for, but I'm going to wait until those games show up, given Nintendo's penchant for hardware revisions.-
Wind Waker HD will be well worth the price of admission. I just hope that can bring Metroid back to its SNES glory days.
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Nintendo's penchant for hardware revision isn't that much prevalent for home consoles though. Or at least, never in a manner that is obvious (Wii had several iterations, but only the latest had LESS opportunities with the GC features disappearing)
That said, you may benefit at least from a price drop and a bigger (and more interesting) library on the horizon.
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