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3DS tops 9 million units-sold in Japan, Wii U sales similar to Wii performance

The 3DS has sold over 9 million units in Japan, sales tracker Media Create has announced. Including sales of the XL model, Nintendo’s portable has accumulated a total of 9,118,000 units.

Wii U is selling similar to the Wii thus far. Through its first two weeks, Wii moved roughly 436,000 consoles.

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BigBoss34167d ago

why the many dissa... oh wait im on the biased site n4g

chukamachine4168d ago

Wii u won't hold to wii sales.

jaymart2k4168d ago

PS4 & Xbox 720 won't either. Your point?

shutUpAndTakeMyMoney4168d ago (Edited 4168d ago )

wiiU won't hold to Sony's ps4 exclusives or app loading time or cloud service or blu ray drive or being open to cross platform gaming like some pc/ps3 games or willingness to make new AAA games at the end of a generation to maximize your investment in a console or be the only company to not turn their back on the long time core gamers.. And that is during a financial struggle.

Everything else wiiU will do better I am sure.

As long as ninty stays true to the casual gamers they will stay on top. Or abandon you guys again.

Still waiting for N64 days to comeback? shame..

Deku-Johnny4168d ago

@shutUpAndTakeMyMoney, Wii U will have better exclusives than PS4. Nintendo have the best exclusives every generation. Especially when they finally release the new IPs they're working on.

zebramocha4168d ago

@deku that is a big lie,nintendo didn't make any new games for the wii and didn't show any for the wiiu,which could've made good use of the game pad.

Amsterdamsters4167d ago

@shutUpAndTakeMyMoney We're talking about systems that actually exists...at this point, you're talking about vaporware. Once the PS4 is available in stores, you're point would be more valid.

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donman14168d ago

Hmmm where have we heard this and other lines like "Nintendo will fail", "Wii will not sell"... So far Wii U sales are mirroring Wii.

MegaLagann4167d ago

How's that time machine?

I love how everyone at N4G has a marketing and business degree apparently.

PopRocks3594167d ago

Then they go and criticize Pachter for doing the same thing.

Cocozero4168d ago

Quite impressive sales, its even surpassed the PS3 LTD sales already. No surprise though Nintendo has always dominated Japan.

Servbot4168d ago

Their consoles sure haven't. The N64 sold significantly less than the Saturn in Japan, and the Gamecube barely had a presence.

Zodiac4168d ago (Edited 4168d ago )

The DS turned everything around for them. Nintendo has completely dominated Japan since the DS was released.

The story goes pretty much like this. Give the DS a better back light and rule the Japanese gaming market from then on.

Even the Wii is getting close the PS2 LTD sales in Japan.

jetpacksheep4168d ago

The Japanese market likes their countries consoles as well as Japnese developed games e.g Playstation and Nintendo, Xbox 360 sales in Japan are practically non-existant.

xflo3604167d ago

Exactly! its the same reason why xbox360 is most popular in the usa and its also why in europe there is no dominant console!

josephayal4168d ago (Edited 4168d ago )

I have seen plenty of Wii U's at Walmart, Target, Gamestop and Best Buy

brettyd4168d ago

Yea i was just at Best Buy and saw several piles of them.

Deku-Johnny4168d ago

There were piles of 360's and PS3 when they first came out and they've done quite nicely.

donman14168d ago

Piles of which version??? Last time I check Wii U white versions are out there. Its the Black Deluxe version everyone wants.

avengers19784167d ago

Plenty of both standard and deluxe versions, all over town in nw Ohio... Meijer was the only store, that only had white ones.

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Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

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Profchaos19h ago

Great news it shows that Nintendo intends to continue developing ports of AAA games to its next gen platform

H912h ago

Buying studios from embracer now is a great deal, they must be dirt cheap at this point, Nintendo is a opportunist, they wait until someone fall so they get their best deal

OtterX6h ago

That is some serious brain gymnastics you have going on there. 🤔

H94h ago

I didn't do any gymnastics I can assure you, honestly I don't know why you think that, not hating I seriously don't see why you think that

ZeekQuattro1h ago

Yeah I don't know where that came from. It's rare for Nintendo to flat out aquire studios. Guess they were trying to be edgy but why flex on this studio. 🤣

banger8812h ago

I hope someone buys Piranha Bytes, their future isn't looking good right now. I love their RPGs, they're janky as f***, but they have heart and soul.

Relientk779h ago

Nintendo saw the Mortal Kombat 1 Switch port and were like, "Yeah, these guys are worth acquiring."

You can't make this crap up lol

Profchaos7h ago

Mortal Kombat 1 was never going to port well I'm sure they told wb it wasn't going to work but wb wants that sweet sweet 140 million install base

In the end wb approved the project cleared the milestones and allowed the product to release

SonOfOsiris3h ago

Yeah this guys ported MK11 which is great, Hogwarts Legacy which is great, and MK1 is now ok, play it every day

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Game Developers Have Begun Confirming Nintendo Switch 2 Support

Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.

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How Many More Victims, Like Garry's Mod, Will Nintendo's Hurtful Crusade Create?

Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."

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RiseNShine17d ago (Edited 17d ago )

The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.

gold_drake17d ago (Edited 17d ago )

i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.

nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.

people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly

mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.

zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.

nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.

its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.

but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.

Inverno17d ago

Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.