Gaming consoles where a big hit during this holiday season. Microsoft and Sony are more then happy with the sales results, both Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have solid millions of units in a very short period. But not everyone is making good sales in the console market, Nintendo Wii U is having bad results.
Nintendo is already trying to lower their expectations about Wii U sales. Initial expectations where 9 million units from April 2013 to March 2014. Now that number has been lowered to just 2.8 million units, witch isn't even a third of what Nintendo expected. One of the reasons for this announcement was a very bad holiday season sales for Nintendo hardware and software.
There are many reasons for bad sales results. Even the Nintendo fans agree that the Wii U hardware isn's as strong and as up to date as the rivals hardware of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Another thing is thirt party games. Nintendo is having success with their franchises like Zelda, Mario, Metroid Prime and others but without third party games it's very difficult to sell that many units as the competition.
With all the old competition having record sales and new many new rivals coming to the market in this year. Steam machines and Oculust Rift are just some of the consoles that are expected. The year 2014 might even be thougher then Nintendo expects.
Source engadget.
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