Nintendo Sells Just 160,000 Wii U Consoles in the Past Three Months

[Shawn Zipay]

Nintendo has revealed that in the past three months, their Wii U console has sold just 160,000 units around the world. They are blaming a lack of first-party releases for the poor sales.

On the software side of things, only 1.3 million units were sold. In the three months prior, the company sold 390,000 Wii U consoles and 13.42 million games.

Financially speaking, sales for the company were up 3.8% ($832.6 million) compared to the same period last year. They also earned a net profit of $88 million compared to a loss for the same period last year.

Operating losses of $50.2 million were due to R&D for the Wii U. In the same span of time, the Nintendo 3DS sold 1.4 million units and 11 million software units sold.

To put things into perspective for how bad the Wii U did during that span of time, the original Wii sold 210,000 units with 3.67 million games sold.

(via GI.biz)

[CptainCrunch]

I think the only people surprised by this is Nintendo. We've talked about this here many times about how they were moving the wrong way with their system specs, controller design, community network, and that stupid mini-screen controller.

The 3DS is what is keeping this company going. I don't know if Nintendo even wants to stay competitive though. Every step they take is not going that direction. They are trying to stay in their little niche that smart phones are starting to gobble up.

Once smartphones have that Nvidia media chip in them, the 3DS is going to go down and hand held gaming will be going to phones even more.

Maybe I'm wrong on that, but I guess we will see in a year or two.