Nintendo Wii U Sales Still Sluggish in the UK, Eclipsed by Wii and DS

Two things, what ever happened to that whole sales boost after the xbox one reveal, and also, the above is just retail and i assume that doesn't include online sales. The majority of people i know have a Wii U got theirs online.  In fact it was most notably Amazon UK that was reported on most sites when mentioning the Xbox one release boost by up to 800%+ i think.

I think if the satistics included online sales the numbers would be rather different.

welshwuff said:
Two things, what ever happened to that whole sales boost after the xbox one reveal, and also, the above is just retail and i assume that doesn't include online sales. The majority of people i know have a Wii U got theirs online.  In fact it was most notably Amazon UK that was reported on most sites when mentioning the Xbox one release boost by up to 800%+ i think.

I think if the satistics included online sales the numbers would be rather different.

The boost was nearly 400%, but seriously, don't kid yourself. Even if it doesn't include online numbers, the same applies to all the other consoles too. Like it or not, the Wii U is a failure in the UK. If someone said this time last year that the Wii U would be selling LESS than the Vita - a system that was considered dead by almost everyone - people would have laughed in their face! Yet look at the situation. Wii U selling less than Vita is a shocking position to be in, retail sales or not.

The only saving grace is that this is SOFTWARE sales, not hardware. I doubt that the DS and PS Vita are outselling the Wii U in hardware, although the fact that sales are ~5% of that of the PS3 and 360 is rather concerning.

The Wii U seems like a failure in the UK at least, and I don't see anything coming out before Christmas that would change that situation.