Nintendo's console was outsold by the nine-year-old PSP last week in Japan, and has been having a hard time in Europe, too.Top 5 Best Nintendo Wii U Black Friday Deals Worldwide Wii U sales have been stuck in the doldrums ever since Christmas. More money was spent on Xbox 360 hardware, games and accessories than any other platform. Xbox 360 held onto the top-selling console spot for its 26th straight month, Microsoft has boasted. That wasn't enough to enter the software top 10 (63,000 were digital copies, which US numbers company NPD does not track), but it was the best first month for any game in the Fire Emblem franchise. Nintendo's only saving grace was sales of Fire Emblem: Awakening, which notched up 180,000 copies on 3DS. There were no Wii U games in February's software top 10. Other figures also need context: the original Xbox's lowest point was just before that console's price cut, PlayStation 3 was significantly higher priced than Wii U, while PS2's lowest ever week was likely due to post-launch stock shortages. It's worth bearing in mind that GameCube and Wii sales only ebbed that low right before their successor consoles came out - not three months after their launch, as the Wii U has done. Gamasutra's graphic below shows just how pronounced this is. Wii U sold less in January than the weakest ever months for PlayStation 2, Xbox, PS3, Xbox 360 and the original Wii. January's figure was apparently lower due to the number of second-hand consoles on the market immediately after Christmas. There's been no real change in the console's fortunes, however. The struggling console sold around 64,000 units in North America last month, while Microsoft's ageing Xbox 360 managed 302,000.įebruary's Wii U figures were up slightly on January - Nintendo managed to shift just 57,000 then, Gamasutra reported. Nintendo's Wii U has had a torrid start to 2013.
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