ASDA removes Wii U from stores, won't restock this year!
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Asda says it will no longer sell Nintendo's Wii U games console in its stores.
Customers wanting to buy the machine from the supermarket can still order it online and have it delivered to their homes or to a local store for pick-up.
Asda said rival consoles, Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3, would still be sold in-store.
This is despite the fact that the Wii U is the newest of the devices having only been launched in November.
"We continue to support Nintendo as a partner," Asda said in a statement.
It added that it had recently expanded the space allocated to sell Nintendo's 3DS XL and games for the handheld console.
The Wii U had been available in about 100 of Asda's 568 stores, but a spokesman denied the withdrawal was a sign of waning confidence in Nintendo.
In May, games giant EA said it had stopped developing new games for the Wii U, and Nintendo's company results revealed that sales targets for the console had fallen well below expectations.
Nintendo has blamed disappointing sales on the delayed release of key games, but says new titles, such as a 3D version of the long-running Super Mario series expected this Christmas, will help revive the Wii U's fortunes.
Poor Nintendo. The iPhone 4S is more powerful than the Wii U. They need to release some Mario games for the iPhone and iPad and sell a Bluetooth controller to play it with.
Will the embarrassment stop? I can't believe Nintendo has failed so bad with the Wii U... Hopefully there next system is just as powerful as a PS4/Xbox One. If not they will continue to fall by the waist side and be left behind...
Seriously though, what was the point in the Wii U? Like they should have just kept the Wii going for that extra while and designed an entirely new console and released at a time when it would have actually been up against it's competition. It was such a foul move from Nintendo.
Seriously though, what was the point in the Wii U? Like they should have just kept the Wii going for that extra while and designed an entirely new console and released at a time when it would have actually been up against it's competition. It was such a foul move from Nintendo.
