NOW THATS NINTENDO POWER

slow and steady

Said Sega in the 90's.

Technically Sega did the knee jerk reaction many on the internet want Nintendo to do and just killed their system too early, leaving a gap of about two years of nothing before the Dreamcast was released.  This was one of the factors that killed that system since many didn't exactly trust Sega anymore because they didn't want to buy a system that could be killed in less then 3 years.

Are you saying actually HAVING new Wii U software in February this time increased Wii U software sales compared to last year's complete no-show? Man, who'd have thought?  ::)

Nice number for Bravely Default, glad to see.

Considering the smaller number of days for DKCTF, those might be nice numbers as well. Hope it keeps it up next month.

A clear indication that Nintendo needs to throw as many of their first party titles they can muster to gain Wii U sales. The release of a new Star Fox, F-Zero, Metroid, Star Tropics, Advanced Wars, Fire Emblem, etc, would push the Wii U further to surpassing the Gamecube in sales.

A pretty lackluster month for anything not called PS4 or XBOne.  Those 3DS sales in particular are alarming, hopefully Nintendo will eventually realize the $200 handheld market only briefly existed (the DSi has turned out to be worse for Nintendo that I ever imagined, sending Iwata hurtling off in the wrong direction just as the market raced off in another).

Iwata's grand scheme revealed, no new games means next year's paltry sales look amazing.

Agree with BD, but too early to say for DKCTF other than they aren't obviously great or terrible.  Even looking at past performance it difficult given the different install bases between Wii and Wii U, different demographics, starkly different software situations, different release times, and simply too few games to directly compare for a baseline.  We'll get a better idea in a few months.

Clearly, and to do so they need to expand, buy new developers, and make partnerships with others... in 2009.  I wonder if GCN sales are even possible at this point, the GCN had a pretty nice mid-life revival (outsold the PS2 a few months in NA iirc) but then again it died shortly thereafter.  Hey, there's one way Nintendo can boost the Wii U, drop it to $100 (or was it $150), with a choice of 4 or 5 great games people would actually want, and do it right before Mario Kart comes out.

Heavy Hitters sounds like an extreme baseball game from Acclaim in the early 90s.

I read it as Heavy Hitlers...

I suppose I could have worded that differently. Thanks for pointing that out.

Well, Sega killed the Sega CD, 32X, Saturn, and then Dreamcast all very quickly.  That's a little different than moving on from just one failure.  Nintendo moved on from the Virtual Boy pretty quickly and didn't suffer a setback in the portable sector. 


Surprising they usually supported the consoles with lots of games.  The Saturn had 596 games released for it and the 688 games.  It would be almost impossible for the Wii U to hit that many games even if they support it for 5 years. 

"Dreamcast 688 games".  No edit button. 

Naw man, no differently, that's the best part!