Wii U sales plummet as Nintendo records quarterly profit

how about releasing that other zelda nintendo you know the one that resembles skyrim.

Nintendo's rehashing the same ole turd over and over, don't get me wrong love me some zelda, metroid, and mario. but they just rely on the same stuff year after year console after console. man there's nothing in my opinion worth paying 250.00 to play on the WiiU. and just wait until the one and ps4 come out it will be in the same boat the Wii was with the 360 and ps3 inferior ports bad muliplayer, and slow OS. But if they drop it to $200 and come out with a new zelds i will buy one. Man im wondering if i should bye both consoles, or a console and another 7970Ghz. Probably go with xbox one play my 360 way more the my ps3 but most of the one's exclusives on the pc to. Man im gonna be broke this Christmas

Should I buy a nintendo wii u deluxe for $250USD ??

They're betting on the re-release of an old game from 2003. Come on. Why don't you get the creative people together and give up something new.

Nintendo has sucked away all of their good will with the Wii. The problem with the Wii was there was nothing to play on it/no DLC for Mariokart and it essentially was a brick. Eventually the people who bought Wii's moved on to PS3 or Xbox 360. So when the Wii U promised that it to would suffer from the same curse, many people remembered what a waste the Wii was. Nintendo doesn't care though and in a way their strategy works, they spend almost nothing on developing hardware and then they take the free check from those poor souls who purchase this future brick. The sad part of this article is that by selling less Wii U's then Nintendo sold Wii's there will be even less games...

Looks like Europe has the most sense out of all of us.

Nintendo has everything to go up. I don't know what's happening with them? They have a lot of exclusives like Kid Icarus, Fire Emblem,Last Story, Pandora's Tower,etc. Those are great games and I know that if Nintendo make sequels of these games that will be a hit. Zelda and Mario are ok but they need something new to revitalize the console and the entire Nintendo brand.

When it comes to me comparing sales figures on the PS3 and Wii U, I was merely showing that just because a system isn't selling as good as the Wii did doesn't mean it's doomed. I could use the same example on the Xbox 360. If you compare it's figures to the WiiU at this current period in their life time, the 360 had alittle more sales. But at this period, sales for the Xbox also dropped because of the new systems coming out soon. However, the Xbox still survived and has even taken the title of second place a few times. 360, PS3, either or. I'm merely showing neither of them sold like the wii, yet they're not doomed.

And once again, I will admit the Wii U could be selling better, but just because it's not on fire like the Wii was doesn't mean it won't last. Even though it really needs some games right now, you must also remember that today's economy is alot different from the economy of seven years ago. More people are unemployed, more high paying jobs have been discontinued, and people just aren't buying things like they use too. When it comes to gaming in general, It seems like every other week there is a story on GS about how a game company's yearly earnings are lower then expected because their games just aren't selling like before. There have even been several cases where game companies have either had to fire many of their employees or just close down all together. So for GS to repeatedly talk like the Wii U is doomed is not only premature and foolish, but bias.

pokemon X and Y is the death of the vita

Yeah, I remember people saying the 3DS would go they way of the Virtual Boy, a few awesome games later and it's the most successful handheld there is. Now the same people are saying the WiiU will go the way of the Dreamcast, I'm no fortune teller but I see some awesome games on the horizon so I think the WiiU will do just fine.

why do people say the wii u is a bad system? (probably a really stupid question) i wouldn't say it's a good system but really it isn't bad either. the few good games it has are actually great, and they have really good virtual console games(like earthbound and punchout)).

Why would anyone buy 3DS over Vita?

They need games to sell the Wii U. If they had flagship titles come out at launch instead of next year, these numbers would be better. Poor management.

Nintendo needed a next gen console that can compete with the Xbox One and Play Station 4. If they don't get the ball rolling here soon, they will suffer the same fate as SEGA I'm afraid...

The one thing that annoys me so badly is Nintendo talking up the innovations of the then Wii and now Wii U control methods, then not even utilizing them except in maybe a limited form, or maybe in games like Metroid Prime where the Wii remote is actually useful. The Galaxy series barely did anything with them at all. Such a shame. I wish they would make creative games on already proven controllers rather than creating a new type of controller, then trying to make something innovative around that.

"attributed its "brisk" 3DS hardware sales to releasing "key titles one after another.""

Hmm... what's coming to the Wii U starting Aug. 4th? A stream of at least one or two games every month until the end of the year. You know, the same thing that got the 3DS out of trouble.

But keep this doom and gloom shit coming PlaySlaves and XBots. It's rather hilarious. And to the Nintendrones, buy the multiplats, even if they're gimped, just buy them. That way you can go on Miiverse and lay into the devs of whatever game that's gimped. You might get free shit.

The Wii U seems pretty dead

R.I.P........WiiU

sucks to hear those numbers, but im not even going to look at that system until i see x and some other non mario/zelda games make it on there

I'm wondering what will Nintendo pull out during the upcoming holiday season.

You know the WiiU is going to go the way of the 3DS. It took over a year for the 3DS to settle in and the WiiU is still an infant. I still won't be getting a WiiU, but man do I love my 3DS.

Maybe if Nintendo of America would localize some of the really good Japanese games, instead of deciding that we only want Mario and Zelda, maybe then a few more people would be interested in buying a Wii U. Get Reggie out of the way.

as a nintendo fan only thing i would get the wii-u for is the new donkey kong im not even interested in the new mario :(

Good to see that they closed on a profit, now about the Wii U... I'm not surprised, to be fair. Nintendo announced its big titles for the Wii U. Emphasis on "announced". It has to actually release them like they did with the 3DS, which unfortunately takes development time (I'm a firm believer that it's best to delay a title than to just release a half-finished product).

Pikmin 3 was a good start, but I don't see it being that "big system seller" the Wii U needs. Not on its own, anyway.

It needs more than that and hopefully it will get it in the upcoming months. Until then, best of luck to the Wii U.

Considering the only two games on the Wii U that I think are truly excellent (Mass Effect 3 and Batman Arkham City) are both ports of games that I own already its hardly surprising that I haven't bought one. The 3DS mainly sells well because its good for kids, much like the DS was.

They need to do more than just jerk off the same old franchises to sell hardware.

Looks like the portable market is definitely their saving grace for profits right now.

Are they still going to pretend like sales aren't that bad? 160,00 from the main regions is god awful whether they want to admit or not.

Another bad summer for the Big N...