UK Retailer Confirms It’s Ditching Support for Wii U and Wii U Games… Sort of

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Mummelmann said:

SpokenTruth said:

Please explain how this affects the rest of Europe, The US and Japan to the point that it necessitates a new global console launch on a schedule other than what Nintendo wants.

Do you go to ASDA (who hasn't carried Wii U mcuh since launch anyway) to buy your games?

How about the fact that this is far from the first report of this kind? How about what I mentioned, that retailers were shipping back units from the launch quarter a year after launch?

It has been reported all over the world that the Wii U has been losing shelf space in several chains and stores for a long time and this incident with ASDA is simply a continuation of this trend, have you missed what's been going on in the past 2-3 years on the market?

This is not a unique instance of this happening; it has become a pattern and that pattern is most assuredly causing Europe, US and Japan and the rest of the world to see less sales and coverage. I repeat; this is not the first store or even chain where this has happened. Don't try to make it sound like an isolated incident when that is clearly not the case.

Examples:

http://wiiudaily.com/2013/09/uk-tesco-nintendo/

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/asda-drops-nintendo-wii-u-as-price-cuts-fail-to-shift-console

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2013/09/14/why-have-hmv-removed-wii-u-from-shelves-but-not-sale/

http://www.gonintendo.com/stories/211040-uk-retailers-on-wii-u-s-lack-of-sales-lowering-price-shelf-spac

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/nintendo-moves-to-calm-wii-u-fears-as-unofficial-price-cuts-fail/0112855

http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/09/report-best-buy-also-returning-wii-u-basic/

http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/05/rumor-gamestop-discontinuing-wii-u-basic-after-june-18/  (lol; "rebalance stock")

http://wiiudaily.com/2013/03/why-retailers-are-slashing-wii-u-prices/ (hardly a source that would spin or present negative Nintendo news for shits and giggles)

http://oxcgn.com/2013/09/26/australian-retailer-clears-out-nintendo-stock-including-wii-u/

http://www.gengame.net/2013/07/report-walmart-stores-in-canada-to-drop-wii-u-basic-set-price-to-199/

 

There are both official and unofficial reports of many retailers and chains across Europe, NA, Australia and even Japan cutting back on stock, fazing out the Basic model before it was officially cut, shrinking shelf space and hardly stocking Wii U games. If you have missed this development, you can't have been reading gaming related news much at all since early-mid 2013 and up until today.

All these incidents clearly doen't represent only the 5% of the WW sales. Sum all those and Wii U is not a viable product.