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Nintendo was unable to turn around momentum for Wii U during the last year-end sales season, and has now set its sights on giving the platform one full year to rejuvenate the platform, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed.
“For Wii U we were unable to recover the momentum sufficiently even in the last year-end sales season,” explained Iwata. “We would like to spend one full year to leverage Nintendo’s own strength in order to regain momentum.
“Of course, we are making efforts to continue selling the titles already released for Wii U and turn them into evergreen titles. For this fiscal year, we will release two flagship Nintendo titles that are known as games that can be enjoyed alone or with others.”
These two games are Mario Kart 8 on May 30 and Super Smash Bros. this winter.
Iwata continued: “With these two titles for Wii U as pillars, we would like to create a new trend for our console game business through which we can best leverage our strength.
“At the Corporate Management Policy Briefing this January, I explained that the company would prioritise making and proposing Wii U software titles that can only be made possible with the Wii U GamePad. We are planning to disclose our progress on this at E3 in Los Angeles in June.”
Nintendo has forecast modest Wii U hardware sales of 3.6 million units for the year ending March 31, 2015. Could failure to meet this target result in Nintendo pulling the plug on the Wii U?
Source: Nintendo investor relations
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