Nintendo says it sold only 460,000 Wii U systems worldwide from April through September 2013. The original Wii bested it with 470,000 despite its sales shrinking to just more than a third of those reported in the same period last year.
Nintendo revealed the figure, which averages out to about 77,000 systems per month, in its most recent financial statement. Nintendo looks to reverse the system's fate this holiday season with a completely new retail presence: two $300 Deluxe bundles bearing Mario and Zelda games and a $300 Skylanders Swap Force Basic system on shelves or coming soon.
Nintendo 3DS, on the other hand, is doing just fine. Nintendo said its portable system moved 3.9 million units from April through September. Its biggest software release was Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which sold more than 2 million units after it hit North America and Europe in June. These figures don't include Pokemon X and Y, which shipped in October.
The company managed a profit of ¥600 million ($6 million) over the six month period, an improvement from its ¥28 billion loss ($285 million) over the same research-and-development-heavy period of 2012.
