Iwata: Wii U Hardware Sales Have Been Steady
Confident in face of falling share prices.
Nintendo has been getting a bit of a kicking for how its handled the Wii U launch as of late, but company president Satoru Iwata is insistent that things aren't as bleak as the gaggle of analysts would have you believe.
In an interview with Reuters, the executive claimed that hardware has been selling steadily over the last month or so that Nintendo's new console has been on sale - even if it hasn't exactly matched the figures of its predecessor, the trend-setting Wii. This is in the face of shares having fallen 15% since the console launched.
"At the end of the Christmas season, it wasn’t as though stores in the U.S. had no Wii U left in stock, as it was when Wii was first sold in that popular boom. But sales are not bad, and I feel it’s selling steadily," Iwata said.
He also added that Nintendo is expecting to sell 5.5 million Wii U consoles by the end of the company's current fiscal year - that's the end of March. To date, the platform has shifted some 40,000 units in the UK, 400,000 units in the US and 300,000 in Japan.
Nintendo is aiming to shift 5.5 million Wii U devices by the end of the current fiscal year – the end of March. The latest sales figures, released in December placed UK Wii U launch sales at 40,000 units US sales at 400,000 units and Japanese launch sales at 300,000 consoles sold.
In an interview with Reuters, the executive claimed that hardware has been selling steadily over the last month or so that Nintendo's new console has been on sale - even if it hasn't exactly matched the figures of its predecessor, the trend-setting Wii. This is in the face of shares having fallen 15% since the console launched.
"At the end of the Christmas season, it wasn’t as though stores in the U.S. had no Wii U left in stock, as it was when Wii was first sold in that popular boom. But sales are not bad, and I feel it’s selling steadily," Iwata said.
He also added that Nintendo is expecting to sell 5.5 million Wii U consoles by the end of the company's current fiscal year - that's the end of March. To date, the platform has shifted some 40,000 units in the UK, 400,000 units in the US and 300,000 in Japan.
Nintendo is aiming to shift 5.5 million Wii U devices by the end of the current fiscal year – the end of March. The latest sales figures, released in December placed UK Wii U launch sales at 40,000 units US sales at 400,000 units and Japanese launch sales at 300,000 consoles sold.
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Ranveer 17 Jan 2013 08:27
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Region lock for Nintendo 3DS?I understand that the new Nintendo 3DS has a rgoien lock, but does that also apply to the old, normal DS games as well? I'm Japanese and I live in America so I play both English and Japanese games . And if the the DS games are rgoien free, then I'm thinking about trading my old DS in so I can get the 3DS for a cheaper price .. Thanks!