Hopes for Nintendo's Wii U just keep sinking. On Wednesday, the company announced that it had sold just 160,000 consoles between April and June. That brings all-time sales of Nintendo's newest console to 3.61 million worldwide since the device was released in the U.S. in November 2012. Even the aging Wii console, first introduced in 2006, outsold its successor to the tune of 50,000 units this quarter.
In April, Nintendo reported that it had fallen short of its goal to hit 4 million console sales by the end of March, which was already a downgraded goal from its initial target of 5.5 million units.
Nintendo blamed the most recent Wii U hardware sales lag on "the release of few key first-party titles" between April and June. With major gaming studios like EA snubbing the Wii U, Nintendo relies largely on its own stable of titles to keep Wii U fans happy.
Nintendo hopes to turn things around in the latter half of 2013 and into 2014 with a number of anticipated titles, such as The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD, Wii Party U, Super Mario 3D World, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, and Mario Kart 8. Many of those titles were previewed during E3 in June.
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