Mat Piscatella, executive director and video game industry analyst at Circana (NPD), relayed a little sales tidbit about the Wii U today that we couldn’t resist sharing.
The console has been phased out for years with Switch now Nintendo’s primary device since 2017. Finding a Wii U at a retailer at this point is practically impossible – and the platform wasn’t exactly popular to begin with. However, as it turns out, a single new Wii U was sold in the U.S. last month. The last time a Wii U was sold in the states was in May 2022.
We’ll also bring up one other little tidbit that’s almost just as interesting. Believe it or not, a SNES was last sold at a U.S. retailer in January 2008. That’s incredible to think about given how the SNES first came to North America in 1991.
The Wii U ended up being one of Nintendo’s worst-selling systems at over 13 million units. In contrast, Switch has sold over 129 million units.
