Wii U sells 400,000 units in first week [Joystiq]

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The Wii U has sold 400,000 units in the US, Nintendo America president Reggie Fils-Aime tells CNET. Over the same time period, Nintendo sold 300,000 Wii consoles and 500,000 portable devices for a total of 1.2 million hardware units sold in the US.

"Wii U is essentially sold out of retail and we are doing our best to continually replenish stock," Fils-Aime says. "Retailers are also doing their best to get the product to store shelves. But as soon as product hits retail, they're selling out immediately."

In November, GameStop reported more than 500,000 Wii U pre-orders and 1.2 million games spoken for ahead of launch.Wii U sells 400,000 units in first week originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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[kupomogli]

Only 400,000? Brand new system plus Black Friday. That's a pretty low number.

"Wii U is essentially sold out of retail and we are doing our best to continually replenish stock. Retailers are also doing their best to get the product to store shelves. But as soon as product hits retail, they're selling out immediately.

Reggie is such a liar. The system is easy to find.

The Wii U is much more graphically intensive. If you do a side by side comparison, you'd find that third party games like Call of Duty look dramatically better on our system.

As I said above. Reggie is such a liar. The PS3 version of Black Ops 2 is a bad port like every other Call of Duty game, and the Wii U version runs much worse than the PS3 version.

Here's a Neogaf thread that has consolidated all the ports that have issues in comparison to the PS360 versions. Just about every one of them has bad framerate issues.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=500078

[megasdkirby]

Only 400,000? Brand new system plus Black Friday. That's a pretty low number.

In my opinion, I agree. I expected at least a million units or to not be able to find it in stores. It's quite plentiful around here.

I will still hold out until something remotely interesting comes out for it.

[RCM]

Remember, this is the first week. Wii U will have a solid installed base (1.5 - 3 million) by the time the launch window is over... whenever that is. I wonder what effect announcements for the new systems (Xbox 720, PS4) will have on Wii U sales and Reggie's boasts.

[Bubble_Man]

Agree with posts above. I was at Wal-Mart earlier today and saw a Wii U sitting casually in the display case. I might get one eventually, but not until the price goes down and the game selection goes way up.

[eskobar]

So if I travel to the U.S. I have good chances to found a WiiU on stores ?

Nintendo has always limited stock to increase demand, it happened with the Wii ... for the first 2 or 3 years I had trouble finding stock on every store I checked and made constant trips to the US ...

[BetaWolf47]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Reggie's statement is true and false. I'm seeing Wii U in stock everywhere, but only the white 8GB version. I saw the black 32GB version once. So, everyone is realizing that the 8GB version is a crappy deal and scouring the town for the 32GB version, which probably IS selling out as soon as it hits store shelves.

[wingzrow]

To put this in perspective, how much did the Wii sell in it's first week? How about the PS3?

[Bojay1997]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Reggie's statement is true and false. I'm seeing Wii U in stock everywhere, but only the white 8GB version. I saw the black 32GB version once. So, everyone is realizing that the 8GB version is a crappy deal and scouring the town for the 32GB version, which probably IS selling out as soon as it hits store shelves.

Agree with this. I didn't see a single black 32GB in stock anywhere in the San Diego area over the four days of the holiday weekend and I went to quite a few Target, Best Buy, Walmart, Toys R Us and Gamestop stores over that period. I did see white units at several stores, although there weren't stacks of them and certainly not every store had them in stock.

[Greg2600]

To put this in perspective, how much did the Wii sell in it's first week? How about the PS3?

That was in a much stronger economy.

[Rob2600]

To put this in perspective, how much did the Wii sell in it's first week? How about the PS3?

600,000 Wii consoles in its first week vs. 400,000 Wii U.

[kedawa]

They're both crappy deals.
I'd say the 8GB system with a cheap external hard drive is about the best bang for your buck.

[BetaWolf47]

They're both crappy deals.
I'd say the 8GB system with a cheap external hard drive is about the best bang for your buck.

I don't know... $50 more, AND it comes with 4x the memory and a $60 game.

Well, both are still better deals than the Xbox 360 Core.

[The 1 2 P]

So if I travel to the U.S. I have good chances to found a WiiU on stores ?

Nintendo has always limited stock to increase demand, it happened with the Wii ... for the first 2 or 3 years I had trouble finding stock on every store I checked and made constant trips to the US ...

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Reggie's statement is true and false. I'm seeing Wii U in stock everywhere, but only the white 8GB version. I saw the black 32GB version once. So, everyone is realizing that the 8GB version is a crappy deal and scouring the town for the 32GB version, which probably IS selling out as soon as it hits store shelves.

Beyond the 8 gb systems that we have all saw in abundance no matter where we live you can also still get either system at gamestop's website with no hassle. 400,000 sales in one week is still pretty impressive but I seriously doubt this system will ever achieve the Wii's sales numbers or become sold out for half as long.

[Leo_A]

Pretty nice numbers for the original Wii at least.

I wonder if it has already or will reach the 100 million mark this Christmas season?

[treismac]

I might get one eventually, but not until the price goes down and the game selection goes way up.

Here, here. Slash a $100 or so off the top with 10 plus games that get me excited in the library and I might bite in two to three years. Of course if the right game or two came along...

[dgdgagdae]

Beyond the 8 gb systems that we have all saw in abundance no matter where we live you can also still get either system at gamestop's website with no hassle. 400,000 sales in one week is still pretty impressive but I seriously doubt this system will ever achieve the Wii's sales numbers or become sold out for half as long.

The deluxe version says "Backordered" at the link you provided.

[WCP]

I don't think the 8 gig version is as bad as everybody is making it out to be. I'd rather have that $50 in hand, and I can get Nintendoland used for a song early next year. Think about it. Everybody and their Moms are buying the deluxe version with Nintendoland. The amount of used Nintendolands in circulation is going to cause that game to be worth $$20 or less in a couple of months. If that.


I personally will never need more than the 8 gigs, because I won't be buying things digitally, and I seriously doubt that Nintendo will have tons of huge demos available on a regular basis. I have a ton of USB sticks floating around the house that I could use for extra storage if I really needed it.

[j_factor]

The real news here is that the Wii sold 300k in the same time period. That's pretty good.

[JSoup]

Here, here. Slash a $100 or so off the top with 10 plus games that get me excited in the library and I might bite in two to three years. Of course if the right game or two came along...

I'm probably not going to get one unless I get the same deal I did with the Wii. A vendor at a convention I was working a year following the Wii's release had 10 of them he just couldn't sell in whatever area he was in. People just weren't interested. Thought he might be able to unload them at the convention for a reduced price. Ended up getting one for $100 even. And even then the thing was useless to me until I modded it.

So, all that. That's when I'll get a WiiU.