Nintendo just sold a brand new Wii U for the first time in over a year, says analyst
And the alarm goes Wii U
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Nintendo sold just one brand newWii Uunit in September, marking their first official sale of a Wii U system in over a year. That’saccording to Mat Piscatella, an industry analyst at the market research firmCircana.
With the brilliantNintendo Switchabsolutely dominating the sales charts, it’s no surprise that customers seem to have largely lost interest in Nintendo’s last generation hardware. The shifting of retail units has slowed to a crawl, with the previous reported Wii U sale taking place back in May 2022.
Launched over a decade ago on November 18, 2012, to a mixed critical reception, production of new Wii U units wasfully discontinued in January 2017and, thanks to the recentclosure of the Wii U and 3DS eShops, there is now very little in the way of official support for the system.
In fact, it is remarkably hard to find a brand new Wii U system on shelves thanks to Nintendo’s efforts to replace the stock with more recent offerings. Even so, Circana’s Retail Tracking Service (which monitors the sale of brand new products at various retailers across the US) suggests that one customer managed to bag a brand new Wii U in September.
Although the system still has its fair share of die-hard fans, it’s hard to imagine why many consumers would consider picking one up whenthe majority of its best titles are already available on the Nintendo Switch. Things become a little clearer when you consider the unit’s sale price, however, which wasreportedly just $299.99.
Although this is very much in line with the console’s original retail price, which was $299.99 for the Basic Set or $349.99 for the Deluxe Set, the cost of second hand Wii U units has beenrising steadily over the last few yearsthanks to their limited availability making this a steal for a potential collector.
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Dash is a technology journalist who covers gaming hardware at TechRadar. Before joining the TechRadar team, he was writing gaming articles for some of the UK’s biggest magazines including PLAY, Edge, PC Gamer, and SFX. Now, when he’s not getting his greasy little mitts on the newest hardware or gaming gadget, he can be found listening to J-pop or feverishly devouring the latest Nintendo Switch otome.
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