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I know Wii-U and Vita are already both basically irrelevant in the UK, but I wonder just how bad it's going to get.

Talking colloquially from retail, my local Tesco hasn't had a Vita game in for about 3 months and their Wii-U selection is pitiful (SW3DW; Mario & Sonic and Sonic Lost World).  And I believe that Nintendo sorted some kind of deal with Tesco to actually keep Wii-U on shelves in the first place.

And things were weird in my local dedicated games shops, too.  Grainger Games had 3 shelves for Vita and 2 for Wii-U recently.  These had both been demoted to just 1 shelf each when I went in the other day.  CEX was even worse - Vita had 3 shelves and Wii-U had 1 previously, but the Vita section was around 4-5 games when I went in yesterday; and the Wii-U section was literally a single game - Batman Arkham Armored Edition.  Nothing else in the whole store.

Granted, I could be getting completely the wrong end of the stick with this and maybe the stores were just completely selling out of their Wii-U and Vita games (so it's actually a good thing), but that seems kinda unlikely, seeing as how GAME had a full selection for each console.