Sales are an absolute disaster.
As a consumer I think it's had an okay first year but it could have been better. Nintendoland and The Wonderful 101 were both brilliant and my personal favourite games. Lego City Undercover, Wind Waker and Pikmin helped fill the gaps but there still wasn't enough software released over the 12 months. They made some really bad decisions in first party software (Game and Wario eurgh...) and third party partnerships (Ninja Gaiden 3), which didn't help.
Nintendo should have done a lot more with the Virtual Console and encouraging indies to bring their titles to the eshop. The latter they've clearly worked hard to rectify going forward into 2014 so hopefully these droughts won't be so prominent next year.
They've fixed up the UI a lot but it still is missing gamepad controls in Wii mode and the system needs a working account system. The eshop is also missing a way just to see all titles alphabetically. Trying to find older games not in the charts was a nightmare.
5/10







