Retail giant Asda is no longer stocking Wii U consoles across its 555 retail outlets, dealing a new blow to Nintendo's bid to reverse the console's fortunes.

The grocer, Britain's second-largest, has suspended stock on all Wii U games, consoles and accessories across its stores, though eight products (all released during the Wii U's November 2012 launch) remain available on the Asda Direct website.

CVG understands that the company did not stock Nintendo's latest release, Pikmin 3, a widely acclaimed title which entered at number two on the UK all formats charts.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/421340/asda-suspends-wii-u-stock/

Future doesn't look good for the WiiU.

"The retailer is not stocking 3DS systems online either - despite the handheld outselling the Xbox 360 and PS3 in the UK and across the US, while 3DS software sales are outperforming the competition too."

You missed a bit.

Asda is not a large gaming vendor, but this is still worrying

Thank you milkyjoe, that was a pretty important piece he missed there lol. But since it was posted by him, I'm not surprised. Nothing serious as usual from the usual ninty haters.

If it picks up as predicted this year, they'll put them back on the shelves. Supply and demand.

Isn't Asda like the UK Wal-Mart?

I think they're actually owned by Wal-Mart.

Thank god they learned from the 3DS launch, no big droughts, right?

Blimey days. Although, this isn't a massive surprise since they've sold the deluxe model for clearance prices twice now.

The 3DS bit I don't get though. It sounds like a rift with Nintendo or something, but as people have said, they're the British arm of Wal-Mart and I don't see them stopping selling 3DS any time soon.

Bad times. Though, I'm sure they'll be back in stock in time for the holidays.

Thats pretty big.

Wonder if we will see other retailers follow.