More like Pii U

Let's be honest, the Wii U has done less than stellar. It’s a console stuck between last gen and next gen, and has quickly become the joke of the gaming community. If you keep up with gaming news then you know Nintendo often finds itself in this situation. They start off slow but eventually pick up momentum and start selling like hot cakes!

Well it turns out things may be worse than we all expected. From April 1 to June 30, only 160,000 Wii U's have been sold. Unsurprisingly, they’ve done best in their home territory with 90,000 units sold, followed by the US with 60,000, and finally combined 10,000 in Europe and Australia.

The Wii U actually had a very strong start with 3 million consoles sold in about a month, selling better than the Xbox 360 and PS3 when they launched. The problem has been the months that followed. Currently, the lifetime sales for the Wii U are at 3.61 million units sold.

The main problem I see is that Nintendo seems to be stuck in their ways. They are slow to put out first party games, no third party company seems to care about the console, and they are afraid of the magical being that is the internet. Adding injury to insult, there has yet to be a system seller and instead they have given us a bunch of delays.

Nintendo has now been in the business of making video games for the past 25 years! How is it that they didn't realize that HD games would be much harder to make.

Nintendo is sitting on a large sum of cash and seem to not know what to do with it. I am just glad people are speaking with their wallets and telling Nintendo to step up their game. Hopefully the Holiday line up will help the system out.

In other news the 3DS is selling like hot cakes!