Donkey Kong Drives Wii U Sales, Bravely Default Outpacing Fire Emblem

Strong new releases helped sales of Wii U software and Nintendo 3DS software in February increase by more than 180 percent and more than 25 percent, respectively, over the same month last year. Wii U software sales were driven by the Feb. 21 launch of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, which sold more than 130,000 combined physical and digital units in its first eight days on the market. This helped sales of Wii U hardware increase by nearly 25 percent over the same month last year.

*Data regarding physical sales of games in February are from the NPD Group. Data regarding digital downloads of games and combined physical/digital life-to-date numbers are from Nintendo’s internal sales figures. All numbers, unless otherwise stated, are specific to the United States only.

VGC  was pretty good though, it showed about 66k so only about 12k off. Just putting this out there cuz lots of people thought it was overtracked like last month!

Awesome I like hearing news like this

"Donkey Kong drives Wii U sales"

No? Wii U still sold badly. As did Donkey Kong.

True that but 95% wont b about this, and beside i feel the need to do 2 positive nintendo threads to counteract th 5+ negative daily nintendo threads :p

Wait a sec...did VGC undertracked the Wii U by 17k or am I looking at different numbers?

Wii U is up yoy though.

That's actually pretty good sales.

Awesome!!!

It doesn't matter how minuscule they both sold. Donkey Kong drove sales regardless. 

You're right.