Wii U 2014 Sales Overview - 3.54M Units Sold, 23.02M Games Sold - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 30 January 2015 / 7,909 Views
Welcome to the ‘2014 Sales Overview’ series of articles. Over the next several weeks we will be taking a look at the sales of each console and handheld in 2014: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, 3DS, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii.
In this third ‘2014 Sales Overview’ we will be taking a look at the sales of the Wii U in 2014.
Let’s take a look at the hardware sales of the Wii U. Nintendo’s 8th generation home consoles sold 3.54 million units worldwide in 2014 to bring its lifetime sales up to 8.84 million units. Hardware sales in 2014 were up 13.8 percent year-over-year.
The Wii U sold 1.69 million units during the final two months of the year. That accounts for 47.7 percent of the total sales for the entire year. December was the biggest month for the console where it sold 1.18 million units, followed by November where it sold 511,989 units.
Hardware sales saw a boost in sales in May and June due to the release of Mario Kart 8. Despite only being out for just the final week of May, the game helped increase Wii U sales 101,822 units in May. Sales were up another 136,062 unit s in June.
Taking a look at the software sales for the Wii U in 2014 there were 23.02 million games sold worldwide. That is a 52.4 percent increase year-over-year. There have been a total of 42.61 million games sold for the Wii U. The attach ratio is 4.8:1.
The entire top 10 bestselling Wii U games in 2014 were published by Nintendo. Nintendo also accounted for 16.49 million games sold for the console during the year. That is 71.6 percent of the total games sold for the Wii U.
The top selling game for the Wii U in 2014 was Mario Kart 8 with sales of 4.03 million units. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U was the 2nd bestselling game with sales of 2.74 million units. Super Mario 3D World was at number three with sales of 1.29 million units.
New Super Mario Bros. U was the fourth bestselling game with sales of 1.10 million units, while Nintendo Land sold one million units. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze sold 959,158 units. New Super Luigi U sold 823,821 units.
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A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. Outside, in the real world, he has a passion for the outdoors which includes everything from hiking to having received his B.A. in Environmental Studies. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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That's a 6.5 tie ratio without digital. At least there's one impressive thing about it.
Tie ratios aren't generally based on the annual console sales since it isn't only new owners buying software. Using that metric the PS3 would have a tie ratio of 29.3. Even the Vita would be at 6.3. The Wii at 54.8, etc.
I say meh to these sales. Nintendo consoles have sold better (selling worse than gamecube) so I'm really worried in a sales aspect for the Wii U.
Worrying is the equivalent of chewing bubble gum in order to solve an algebra problem.
Nintendo could have sold an extra 1 million wii us if they had a smash bundle globally for christmas, a mario kart 8 bundle at launch in Japan
and a captain toad bundle
why post the same graph twice, is the second graph supposed to be software sales? please fix it.
Man, The media really hate WII U. Holy shit.
How come its undertracked. ISnt it 9,2 million still awful but better than 8,9 million
I certainly thing a $50 price drop is needed right now. The 1st quarter is a slow time for sales for the whole industry but the release schedule for Nintendo looks very barren indeed. They can't afford to return to a 30k per week baseline then wait for the holiday season again. The question is whether Nintendo will sell more Wii U's in 2015 than last year, if they don't then the console has already peaked and lifetime sales of 20 million seem unlikely.
They need to start having a variety of different bundles, have a price drop, work on publisher relations and start face lifting their online services.
And the next Nintendo console will sell even worse
No, its been like that since the NES, SNES sold worse than the NES, N64 sold worse than the SNES, GC sold worse than the N64. The Wii was the only break, but that was because of hype, in a few years it fell off a cliff in terms of sales, so actually he's very likely right, and once again the Wii U sold worse than the Wii.
