The company has sold only 160,000 units of the console in the last quarter of the year, while financial figures show a slight recovery
sales of the Wii U has been reduced to only 160,000 in the three months to June, Nintendo has revealed.
The figures show a dramatic drop in sales of over 50% compared to the previous quarter, 390,000 units were shipped worldwide. The concern for pregnant gaming machine were raised earlier this week when the British supermarket chain Asda announced it was withdrawing the console on the shelves of its 550 retail stores - but still sell the Wii U its online software.
Despite the dramatic decrease in its new home console, Nintendo has managed to report modest net profit of 8.6 billion yen (€ 58 million), using the weak national currency - even if is against an operating loss of 4.9 billion yen, due to the development costs of the Wii U and increased advertising investment in the 3DS.
The figures are, however, an improvement from a year ago, when the giant based in Kyoto revealed a net loss of ? 17.23bn. Current figures were also helped by the relatively strong performance of the portable Nintendo 3DS, which rose from 1.4 million units, helped by the arrival of popular game franchises like Animal Crossing and Tomodachi Collection.
Despite the decline of the Wii U, Nintendo is sticking to its previous forecast and expects to sell 9 million consoles by the end of March 2014. In its financial report, the strengths of the company to a line-up of upcoming titles from first party, including the famous Pikmin 3 Wii U as Party, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Gel, Super Mario 3D World and Wii Fit U.
In many respects, the proposal from the Wii U had problems from the start. When the machine is revealed at the E3 conference in 2011, many journalists do not understand if the product is presented a new console or a new joypad for the original Wii. Later, it became clear that the main selling point of the Wii U is its GamePad, a special controller with its own built-in screen. However, both Nintendo and Game Press found it difficult to explain the benefits of general consumption.
When the Wii U launched in the winter of 2012, the training program has been criticized by players, with very few first-party titles strong and irregular support major players such as Activision, EA and Ubisoft. Although titles like NintendoLand, ZombiU and Pikmin 3 has been received with enthusiasm by fans, the new securities were dispersed, and single sentence of the platform. Major publishers to review their support platform.
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