@iandizion713 posted some numbers which are terrifying for Nintendo and it's fans.
Wii U was released Nov-Dec 2012
Dec 2012 - 3.06 million units sold
Dec 2013 - 5.86 million units sold
Dec 2014 - 9.20 million units sold
Now let's take a closer look at these stats....
2012 - The Wii U launches and optimism is at an all time high. Third party wasn't going to make much for it but Nintendo after coming off the horrible end of the Wii (2008-2012) learns it needs software.
3.06 million sold
2013 - Rough first year, store promotions do what they can but the Wii U is shown to be a flawed system. Console went the longest period in time with no games, set a world record. Nintendo says everything will change the next year when it's Kart and Smash games come out. Nintendo pleads for people to buy for the future.
2.8 million sold
2014 - Here's where it gets bad. The two largest games the console will ever see barely moves the needle from the year before with absolutely nothing on the console.
3.34 million sold
That's not a mistake. Nintendo released their killer games in 2014, they don't have anything better than these two (Kart and Smash) and they only sold half a million more than the year before with no games. That's horrible, that's past horrible. This is Nintendo's worst nightmare.
What does it mean moving forward?
Zelda is delayed, now is it delayed for the Wii U or is it delayed for the next console? We've seen Nintendo do this before.
The Gamecube almost put Nintendo into bankruptcy and there came a point when they weren't going to waste any more software on it. Super Paper Mario was set to be released on the Gamecube and it was held and tweaked to be a Wii game instead. Could Zelda face the same fate?
Also now that DeNA is calling a lot of the shots for Nintendo do we see a Metroid or Kid Icarus game on a smartphone instead of a console for the sole reason because they'll sell?
Nintendo literally has nothing down the pipeline to sell the Wii U now. It's best efforts were in 2014 and it fell flat, changes are coming and people could see their favorite franchises on yet to be announced hardware or even their smartphone because of it.
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