Amazon UK were able to encourage a drastic increase in their Wii U sales, through performing a temporary price cut for the console.
The Wii U Premium Pack fell to a more lucrative price point of £229.99, although has now returned to £269.99 before you rush to purchase, seeing the console jump from being positioned 390 within Amazon UK’s sales ranking to 40.
Sales data points toward a sales increase of 875 percent at its peak, which will surely please both the online retailer and Nintendo.
Similarly, sales of Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, ZombiU and New Super Mario Bros. U leapt by 92 percent, 250 percent, and 110 percent respectively.
It seems I’m not the only one who feels Microsoft’s Xbox One reveal was less than stellar, as customers in the UK have been snapping up the Wii U console ever since. Before the conference began the console had a sales rank of #390 on Amazon’s UK site. Shortly afterward, the Wii U skyrocketed up to #40 on the online retailer’s list. That’s a huge jump for a single event that had absolutely nothing to do with the console.
Microsoft achieved what price cuts weren’t able to do, as it got UK customers to purchase a Wii U. Those of you who believed the title on my opinion piece was misleading yesterday now have proof that Microsoft is indeed selling the Wii U better than Nintendo has so far.
