Nintendo sold a new Wii U mainframe this year and stopped production in 2017

Thank you for the handwritten clues delivered by CTOnews.com netizens! CTOnews.com, Oct. 14, Circana industry analyst Mat Piscatella said Nintendo sold a new Wii U mainframe in the United States in September, the first time it has sold a new Wii U since May 2022.

Piscatella said on X (formerly Twitter) that Circana tracks game console sales data from "most retailers", which account for 97 per cent of US hardware retail sales. The Wii U bought from retailers this year is not a refurbished or used game console, so there is certainly a more active market. This is the new Wii U sold in 2023.

CTOnews.com noted that the Wii U, the first high-definition game console released by Nintendo in 2012, was discontinued in 2017 and will discontinue online services for 3DS and Wii U software in early April 2024. By the end of December 2015, worldwide sales of Wii U had reached 14.01 million units, with a hardware / software ratio of 6:1.

Although Wii U is not a popular game console, it is still popular in some circles, where players can experience games that Switch does not have, such as Legend of Zelda: staff of the Wind HD and Nintendo Continent.