Wii U software showed improvement in the Q2 period, reaching 5.27 million units, a 400% jump on the previous quarter. The Wii U was discontinued very recently and now all I can say is that it is Nintendo's least successful home console ever to date surpassing the GameCube which held that title for like 10 years. 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[225], In mid-January 2017, Fils-Aimé told Polygon that Breath of the Wild, which would ship at launch with the Switch in March 2017, would be Nintendo's final first-party game for the Wii U. Important note: To save Wii console data (such as saved games, Messages, etc.) [211] NPD Group reported that in the United States, when comparing the month of June 2013 to the same month in 2014, Wii U software sales were up 373% and console sales were up 233%. [214], The future of the Wii U was left unclear with Nintendo's announcement of a new console platform codenamed NX, which was scheduled to be launched worldwide in March 2017. Audio output options include six-channel 5.1 linear PCM surround sound or analog stereo. [53], On September 13, 2012, Nintendo announced that the Wii U would launch in Japan on December 8, 2012. It features a black Wii U console with 32 GB of storage, a black Wii U GamePad, a copy of Mario Kart 8, a Sensor Bar, and special edition red Wii Wheel (North America only). [198] According to the NPD Group, Wii U sales in November increased by 340% over sales in October in North America, selling approximately 220,700 units sold in that month. [160], In January 2014, citing lower-than-expected sales during the 2013 holiday season, Nintendo announced that Wii U sales forecasts for fiscal year 2014 had been cut from 9 million units to 2.8 million. A Wii System Update will add new features to upgrade your Wii console. [194] Following the release of Wii Party U on October 31 in Japan, weekly Wii U sales spiked to 38,802 units sold. What to Do: From the Wii U Menu, select "System Settings." Believe it or not, the Wii U is still being updated. [116] Up to twelve accounts can be created per console. That’s why this discontinuation of services is happening on a region-by-region basis. [193] During the third quarter of 2013, Nintendo reported that 300,000 consoles and 5.27 million software units were shipped worldwide. [199] According to several publications, including NPD Group, December 2013 was the best-selling Wii U month in the US since its launch, selling around 481,000 units. For the industrial labor union, see, Home video game console released by Nintendo in 2012. Tap the Up/Down Arrows … [220], The new platform, now known as Nintendo Switch, was officially announced on October 20, 2016; it is a tablet-like hybrid video game console with detachable controllers, and the ability to be placed in a docking station with an output to allow games to be played on a television. [153] Time writer Matt Peckham said that the Wii U was the system of choice to pick up during that Christmas season, praising the console's game lineup, affordable price, Off-TV Play, the absence of subscription fees for its online services, backward compatibility and media features. The bundle included a black Wii U console with 32 GB of storage, a black Wii U GamePad decorated with a golden Triforce and other thematic symbols, a download code for the game and, in North America, a digital copy of The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia, a collector's book about The Legend of Zelda series. U. [150], Following the launch of other eighth-generation consoles, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, in November 2013, some critics suggested that the Wii U would continue to struggle as it lacked the third-party support of its rivals. [117], A social networking service known as Miiverse is integrated into the Wii U's system software; it allows players to interact and share content in game-specific communities using their Mii as an avatar. Wii U System Details and release date Launches: 2012; Size: Approximately 1.8 inches tall, 6.8 inches wide and 10.5 inches long. [16] On March 3, 2017, Nintendo released its successor, the Nintendo Switch, which retained and refined concepts introduced with the Wii U. [71] The bundle was later released in Europe on November 22. [224] Fils-Aimé stated that the commercial failure of the Wii U, specifically the lack of clarity of the Wii U GamePad's function, and the lack of support from third-party publishers to build out its software library, led to how they changed the marketing and promotion for the Switch. [126] Following delays, a European launch was cancelled. A new firmware update is now available for the Nintendo Wii U. The system's primary controller is the Wii U GamePad, which features an embedded touchscreen, directional buttons, analog sticks, and action buttons. The Basic bundle contains a white Wii U with 8 GB of storage, a white Wii U GamePad, stylus and an HDMI cable, while the Deluxe (U.S.) / Premium (WW) contains a black Wii U with 32 GB of storage, a black GamePad and stylus, an HDMI cable, and adds a Nintendo Network Premium subscription, the Nintendo Land game (except Japan), as well as stands for the console and controller and a sensor bar (except Japan). Obviously, the update doesn’t do much. Select the System Settings icon on the HOME Menu and tap Open. [86][87][b] The Latte graphics chip contains both a "GX2" GPGPU, which runs Wii U applications, and a "GX" GPU, which enables backward compatibility with Wii games. you must first connect your Wii console online and download the System Update. The Wii U (/ˌwiː ˈjuː/ WEE YOO) is a home video game console developed by Nintendo as the successor to the Wii. Release date: June 24th 2019 (North America) / June 25th 2019 (Europe, Japan) Regions: Europe / North America / Japan; Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience Some analysts expressed skepticism in regards to the addition of a touch-screen, expressing concern that the controller would be less affordable and less innovative than the original Wii Remote. Wii U games can be downloaded digitally through Nintendo eShop, or at retail on physical media. [200] Independent estimates put the number of Wii U consoles sold by the end of 2013 between 4.5 and 5.2 million. The memory architecture allows the CPU and GPU to access both the main DDR3 memory pool and the eDRAM cache memory pool on the GPU, removing the need for separate, dedicated memory pools. The app also provided integration with IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, and Wikipedia to provide additional information, and social connectivity through Facebook, Twitter, or Miiverse. [26] Miyamoto also expressed Nintendo's interest in working with HD graphics, but clarified that the company is primarily focused on gameplay. Some download-only games were also available on launch day for the Wii U via Nintendo eShop. Currently I am looking for patterns and anything peculiar to try and unravel the mysteries of the Wii U File System. The company also predicted that the Wii U would be more popular than its competition, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, among children during the holiday season. A look at the brand new firmware update for Wii U, which adds the quick boot menu and updates the NNID menu! [174] It also sold over 40,000 consoles in the UK in its first weekend. New update is Ver. [89] The console includes either an 8 GB (Basic) or 32 GB (Deluxe (NA) / Premium (WW)) internal eMMC flash memory, expandable via SD memory cards up to 32 GB and USB external hard disk drives up to 2 TB. In an interview with GameSpot the next day, Nintendo of America's Senior Product Marketing Manager Bill Trinen admitted that Nintendo's pre-launch marketing and presentations of the Wii U had focused too much on the GamePad, to the extent that some consumers mistook the device as an accessory for the existing Wii rather than a component of an entirely new platform. The Wii U file system is encrypted, and even once it's decrypted, we don't know how the file system actually works (on a low level bit-by-bit). [151][152] In December 2013 article, Chris Suellentrop of The New York Times argued that the Wii U was the only new console with a video game worth playing—Super Mario 3D World—which he described as being "the best Mario game in years". 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