Sluggish Nintendo Wii U Sales in North America

By Jorge Ba-oh 15.03.2013 8

Sluggish Nintendo Wii U Sales in North America on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

As we creep into middle March, North American sales figures reveal a sluggish start for Wii U in 2013.

According to EuroGamer, the Nintendo Wii U sold around 64,000 in the country in February, a figure akin to the GameCube and original Wii when these consoles were coming to an end of their respective lifespans.

By comparison Microsoft's older Xbox 360 continues to dominate, selling 302,000 units during February.

The weak Wii U figure is an improvement over January's 57,000 figure, but still shows that the hardware is underperforming in all major regions.

March is looking promising however  with the release of LEGO City Undercover and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate to settle the brief lack of new Wii U software.

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Sonic_13 is offline. Sonic_13 15.03.2013#1

A lot of people are going to make a much bigger deal about this than they should. Systems need games. Wii U's release schedule has been pretty barren January and February, so it shouldn't be surprising that system sales are low. March should be a little better with LEGO, Monster Hunter, Need for Speed, and others coming out. In the months that after through the end of the year we're going to get a lot more big games as well (Pikmin 3, Wonderful 101, Bayonetta 2, Mario Kart 8, Rayman, Watch_Dogs, Assassin's Creed 4 and many more)

The time to worry about Wii U's performance is not now. The time to worry is if a steady stream of quality games start to come out and sales don't increase.

 
Mandown is offline. Mandown 15.03.2013#2

I don't think either Lego or MH3U will impact sales significantly, what's needed are a couple of FP titles.

 
ed (guest) 15.03.2013#3

I remember nintendo saying Wonderful 101 and Pikmin 3 were launch window games, nintendo must have pretty big windows.

Sonic_13 is offline. Sonic_13 15.03.2013#4

ed (guest) said:
I remember nintendo saying Wonderful 101 and Pikmin 3 were launch window games, nintendo must have pretty big windows.
That was before the games were delayed. The launch window was always between launch and the end of this month.

 
PixelZomblina is offline. PixelZomblina 15.03.2013#5

I really am just looking forward to Mario Kart! Smilie But really, the Wii U does need more games. Smilie All in due time, I HOPE. :/

 
J4K is offline. J4K 18.03.2013#6

I wonder if there's any point to launching so early if software isn't there to support the system. Nintendo's early launch is only going to end up netting them a few million units head start over the PS4 and 720, at the cost of suffering an embarrassing lack of software and then getting to feel like the "old news" system when this Christmas comes around. 


 
Mandown is offline. Mandown 18.03.2013#7

Things are far worse here...

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( Edited 18.03.2013 18:38 by Linkyshinks )

 
Sonic_13 is offline. Sonic_13 18.03.2013#8

Jacob4000 said:
I wonder if there's any point to launching so early if software isn't there to support the system.

Keep in mind that this wasn't the plan. Pikmin 3, The Wonderful 101, Wii Fit U, Rayman, (and a couple others) were all supposed to have been out by now. But they all got delayed either just before launch or just after.

 

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