Wii U Tops 7 Million Sold Worldwide - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 30 August 2014 / 20,550 Views
The Wii U, the first eighth generation home console released, has sold more than seven million units worldwide. This figure makes it the second bestselling console, behind the PlayStation 4 and ahead of the Xbox One. It has taken the Wii U 21 months to reach this milestone.
Sales for the Wii U had been poor for most of the year with weekly sales of around 30,000 units for much of the year. However, since the release of Mario Kart 8 in May the console has remained above 50,000 units sold every week and has sold nearly one million units in three months.
There has been seven games that have sold more than one million units for the Wii U and more than 28 million games sold at retail. The bestselling game is New Super Mario Bros. U which has sold 4.18 million units. Nintendo Land has sold 3.10 million units, Mario Kart 8 2.58 million units, Super Mario 3D World 2.23 million units, New Super Luigi U 1.70 million units, Wii Party U 1.34 million units, and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD 1.04 million units.
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i helped, bought one last week.
Got mine about a month ago.
Finally a shift in a positive direction, but smash will be the game to determine the future success of the wiiU.
Looks like Mario Kart 8 really did shift the baseline. Permanently.
Not really
Smash Bros and Amiibo should make the baseline around 90K soon.
Good news.
I think it'll beat Gamecube sales.
Now see how XONE is left in the dust forever by both Japanese companies.
10 million by the end of the year is a possibility!!!!
Wii U has the potential for some major sales this fall/holiday season. They just need to capitalize by really pushing Bayonetta 2, Hyrule Warriors, Smash, the MK8 DLC, the new bundles in the works, Amiibo, etc. They need to do this, most importantly, by having GOOD ads on TV again, especially during prime time shows, and Monday Night Football, etc.
Good now it has a chance of getting to 10 million by the end of the year(and ill lose my bet :( )
It will get to 10 million by the end of november.
Blackmages, i think that it will reach 9 million by november
Wow, the Wii U has sold better than Xbox One. It was released before XONE but stil.. it's surprising.
I can't say anything that others haven't. Just happy that WiiU is outselling XB1 now, and hopefully forever,
Well it seems to me that after Mario Kart 8, Nintendo has been really revving up their advertisement and push for WiiU. I mean after Mario Kart 8 they had an incredibly successful E3, the Fatal Frame reveal, the Hyrule Warriors Direct, the smash announcement, the Mario Kart DLC... (all in no specific order of course) no matter how you slice it, they're really doing much more for WiiU owners. It's great to see the sales picking up and people taking notice of the system.
Wow! 6/7 of those million sellers are like party/group games. And i have 5/7 of them :-D
With Wii U bundle is coming this fall, hopefully the sales should be fine.
This number is, as usual with Nintendo, only shipped.
TLOU sold more lol
Way to Go WiiU!
As long as it beats the Xbox One, I'm happy. Sony and Nintendo should always be at the top.
Wiiu 7 m in 2 years. Xone 5 m in 9 month. Im happy when Micro, Sony and Nintendo is on the top.
Great news. Hopefully the WiiU eventually surpasses atleast the GameCube I'm sales...
People don't realized that it wasn't just going to save things in a few days or weeks. Going take time and you can see it happening, things are getting better for the Wii U. Also MK8 had sold over 2.8 million so dno where that number is from lol
I think the 2.8 million number was the amount of copies Nintendo shipped to retail, not sold to consumer.
I double checked it, and yes that number is shipped. The number was given in their financial report (which you can read here: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2014/140730e.pdf) which only tells sold-in numbers (shipped to retail), not sold-through (sold to consumer).
Take that ignorant person who down-voted my comment!
I'm glad they are getting more bundles out there.
Whoopdie do! Nintendo fans are in such denial.
Check Nintendo's shipment numbers through June with VGC numbers through June and you'll see that it's impossible.
Check again, VGC has Wii U at 6.60 on June 28 and 6.67 on July 5. That's only 80,000 & 10,000 difference respectively. I don't believe Wii U was on the brink of selling out worldwide.
Also if you look at Global minus Japan you get that VGC has only 20,000 gap between shipped & sold. I definitely don't believe that stock in US & Europe is less than half what Wii U sells in a week.
the thing is though is that retailers dont order a lot of wii us and when mario kart 8 came around demand increased a lot so it is possible it could be overtracked by 200k or less
Now i hope Nintendo realize how important is online gaming + Mario of course...
I hope people will realize that this really is NOT a positive thing. 7 million consoles sold in almost 2 years on the market is abysmal, especially when you consider PS4 passed the 10 million mark in less than 9 months. Not trying to start a war, but Wii-U still isn't even doing GC numbers.
7 million so weak. Time to recall the wii u
dat xbox one do
