Nintendo continues to try and find an answer for its troubled Wii U console, as the previous month’s numbers show that it’s still not making the impact the company was expecting.
Analyst David Gibson has reported that a little over 70,000 Wii U units were sold for the month of March, which pales in comparison to other systems for the month, including the Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. In fact, both of those last two systems have had no trouble clearing over 310,000 units apiece for the month.
Gibson also compared the Wii U sales to similar monthly periods for the Wii and GameCube, two of Nintendo’s previous systems. The Wii managed to sell 721,000 systems for the period of March 2008, while the GameCube sold 165,000 back in March 2003.
In total, the Wii U has old sold five to six million units worldwide since its debut in late 2012, a number that both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 managed to lap in a matter of months. That’s a sad result compared to the 25 million units the Wii sold by March 2008, and the 9.5 million units the GameCube sold by March 2003.
Nintendo is hoping that the forthcoming Mario Kart 8, due in late May, bolsters sales of the system – but at this rate, it’s really hard to tell.
Source: Nintendo World Report
