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Nintendo sold just 160,000 Wii U units in the last quarter, a huge slump of more than 50-percent compared to the previous three month period. The sluggish demand, which bring total lifetime sales of the Wii U to 3.61m units, was blamed on “few key first-party titles” by Nintendo [pdf link], with a mere 1.03m […]

Nintendo faces another blow to its Wii U ambitions, with news that one major retailer will yank the poorly-selling console from its shelves altogether. UK supermarket chain Asda, owned by Walmart, has confirmed it will no longer be stocking the Wii U, games for the console, or accessories in any of its 555 stores, telling CVG UK that it will only be offering select titles through its online shopping system.

Asda, the UK’s second largest market chain, has confirmed the decision to no longer stock the Wii U on-site, though has not commented on why exactly it was reached. “Asda continues to offer customers a selection of Wii U games and accessories through Asda Direct, but these ranges are currently not on offer in Asda shops” the company said in a statement.

However, it’s not hard to draw conclusions from the underwhelming sales performance the console has seen so far, which has led some big-name studios to freeze support for the Wii U moving forward. Flagship launch title ZombiU was so far from profitable that Ubisoft has decided not to make a sequel, and will in fact make its next title – initially another Wii U exclusive – multi-platform.

Ubisoft isn’t alone in its cooling ardor for the Wii U. Both Activision and Electronic Arts have said they are disappointed by the Nintendo console’s sales, and have suspended plans to launch any new titles for it.

Nonetheless, Nintendo did show off a range of upcoming titles at E3 earlier this year.

As for those upcoming games, Asda will apparently judge these on a case-by-case basis, picking only those that are expected to be best-sellers to offer online. “Asda will stock [Wii U] games on a title by title merit basis as they come along through Asda Direct” a company spokesperson confirmed.

Asda is keen to point out that avoiding the Wii U doesn’t mean it’s abandoning the Japanese gaming company altogether. “We will continue to support Nintendo as a format holder partner” it clarified, though without any further detail as to what that support might look like.

Nintendo has consistently refused to discount the Wii U, insisting that new titles will make the motion-gaming console more appealing in the long run.

Wii U dumped by major retailer as PS4 and Xbox One near is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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While Nintendo’s 3DS handheld console is certainly doing pretty well for itself now, it did not get off to a good start and saw its price reduced to help boost its sales, and the Wii U isn’t exactly a hot seller at the moment either, but what could be the cause of Nintendo’s troubles? Could it be bad hardware? Lack of games? Lack of appeal to the more hardcore gamer? Well according to Nintendo, it’s none of that. Instead it seems that Nintendo’s executives are blaming the Tohoku earthquake which occurred in 2011 for slowing the momentum of the 3DS.

According to Yahoo Japan News, this sluggish start for the 3DS had a carry-over effect on the Wii U console, which affected the sales of the console. Granted the earthquake had repercussions on not just the daily lives of the people in the area, but also on businesses, but do you think Nintendo is right in blaming the earthquake for the slow start of the 3DS and the sluggish sales of the Wii U? Assuming they are right, does that mean we expect to see Wii U sales pick up in the future?

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Back in May, Call of Duty: Ghosts was announced and was expected to see a release on the 5th of November for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC gamers. Unfortunately there was no mention of support for the Nintendo Wii […]

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It’s been up in the air for a while whether or not we’d see Call of Duty: Ghosts make its way to the Wii U. Activision didn’t initially announce Wii U support when it first made the game official, and executive producer Mark Rubin pretty much hinted to the fact that we would see a Wii U version, but now it’s official.

Activision announced its fall lineup of Wii U games, including Call of Duty: Ghosts. The best part is, the Wii U version will launch on November 5, which is the same day that the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC versions will launch. Still no word on next-gen versions, but they’ll be launching alongside the new consoles in November as well.

The press release doesn’t reveal much about the Wii U version of Call of Duty: Ghosts, other than that the game will support the “Wii Remote and second-screen on the Wii U GamePad.” Other than that, we’re not sure how the game will utilize the second screen on the GamePad, but hopefully it’ll enticing enough for Wii U gamers to fully enjoy.

Back in June, Infinity Ward executive producer Mark Rubin pretty much confirmed the Wii U version of the game, but didn’t necessarily point it out deliberately, only saying that the company “isn’t talking about Wii U yet.” At that time, they wanted to keep the Wii U launch a mystery, but it wasn’t really a mystery anymore after that point.

Call of Duty: Ghosts is the latest in the popular Call of Duty franchise, and it’s being developed by Infinity Ward this time around (Treyarch and Infinity Ward switch every year). Infinity Ward made a name for themselves when they released Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare back in 2007, which completely changed the first-person shooter market and is still used as a template for shooter games to this day.

Call of Duty: Ghosts Wii U version officially confirmed is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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