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

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Mummelmann said:

Here in Scandinavia, it's a total disaster to try to look for anything Wii U related in gaming stores, there just isn't any shelf space. In my closest Media Markt, the original Wii and DS has more shelf space.

This whole "well, this isn't the Wii U's best market anyway" argument just underlines my point; it has been selling really poorly in very many regions and this has caused retailers to drop support or severely cut back on stock, which in turn leads to even lower sales and a lessened global presence. North American retailers were trying to get rid of the Basic unit long before it was cut from production and distribution, same across all of Europe and in Australia.

If the biggest retailers in the biggest markets are scaling back on stock; that is hardly a healthy sign, and saying that "it is selling better elsewhere" is just simple smoke & mirrors to obscure the big picture; it is losing retailer support and has been doing so for a long time and this report is far from being an isolated incident despite some making it sound that way.

Yep. Here in my city (Guadalajara, México) is not exactly getting big space on shelves. In fact, Wii and DS games are sold on big retailers like Wal-Mart while it is hard to find anything releated to Wii U. I normally buy on certain big stores like Sears, but prices are high and difficult to find stock because the low shipments.