Europe: -10k WiiU's shipped in past 6 months

[Darc Requiem]

KylieDog said:

Mr Khan said:

reggin_bolas said:
Another solid reason why Nintendo should go the way of third parties. People want Nintendo games, not Nintendo consoles. It's been like this since the N64.

And what would Nintendo gain from this, financially?

Sell more games, make more money.  If NSMBU released on PS4/XBone, or better yet PS3 and 360 it would outsell the WiiU version by far, more than enough to cover the costs of not pocketing the console owners fee themselves like on WiiU, same with their other games.  They really aren't making much from third party sales so that loss of fees isn't much of a loss compared to the gain of millions of sales on more successful hardware.

Plus Wii U is selling at a loss, so simply not selling Wii U is saving them money.

Great idea in theory. It didn't work out to well for Sega thus far. Not only has Sega still struggled to be profitable their status as one of the best game developers is gone.