It also initially sold absent some much-touted TV-related features and applications. Shortly after it hit store shelves, buyers complained on blogs and on Twitter of technical hitches such as excruciatingly slow software download speeds. The new Wii U - Nintendo’s first new gaming console in six years - has had a few hiccups.

“At this point in the life of the Wii U, its sales are based on how quickly we can get the product to retailers,” he added.

The results are “comparable” to Wii sales in its first week in 2006, but it was early to do an apples-to-apples comparison, Fils-Aime said. “The Wii U is effectively sold out at retail (and) we are gratified by the consumer response,” Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America said in an interview. The Wii U succeeds the revolutionary Wii, which was launched in 2006 and has been a bonanza for Nintendo, with over 97 million sold, although demand had tapered off in recent years. The Wii U hit stores in North America on November 18. Nintendo, which has gradually ceded ground to Microsoft Corp’s industry-leading Xbox 360, needs the Wii U, which comes with a touchscreen controller, to be a hit to turn around years of losses.īut the video game industry is also under threat from a burgeoning smartphone and tablet gaming market. A cashier stands in front of a display of Nintendo Wii U gamepads and consoles in a Toys R Us store on Thanksgiving Day in Times Square, New York November 22, 2012.

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