{"id":5629,"date":"2013-08-01T11:56:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T09:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=5629"},"modified":"2013-08-01T11:56:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T09:56:01","slug":"160-000-wii-us-sold-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/160-000-wii-us-sold-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"160 000 Wii U\u2019s sold worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Console gaming is currently in a very interesting situation \u2013 two companies are in the final stages before unveiling their new consoles to customers. The Sony PlayStation 4 and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/2013\/06\/is-microsoft-losing-momentum-with-the-xbox-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">Xbox One<\/a> are on a lot of wish lists for the festive season across the globe. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=PlayStation+3+Console&amp;amp;sort=score+desc&amp;amp;search_category_id=201\" target=\"_blank\">PlayStation 3<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Xbox+360&amp;amp;bcid=201\" target=\"_blank\">Xbox 360<\/a> continue to be sold to customers not willing to wait for the new consoles.<\/p>\n<p>After the \u201cbig 2\u201d the fight for survival is increasingly. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Nintendo+&amp;amp;bcid=201\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo<\/a>, the iconic gaming company, continues to post disappointing results. Newly created consoles from crowd sourcing platforms such as Kickstarter appear. Hovering over this space are 2 tech giants \u2013 Apple and Google. Apple\u2019s devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) have slowly become a time consumer for casual gamers. Google is supposedly working on a gaming device as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Nintendo+&amp;amp;bcid=201\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo<\/a> has indicated via their quarterly results that they sold 160 000 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/offers\/41844318\/Nintendo+Wii+U+Premium+Black\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wii U\u2019s<\/a> globally in 3 months.\u00a0 To put this into context popular games like Halo, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/2011\/11\/modern-warfare-3-breaks-launch-day-sales-records\/\" target=\"_blank\">Call of Duty<\/a> have sold millions on launch weekends. The Wii U is clearly not the product that everyone expected as this was supposedly their challenger in the handheld gaming space. Is it a case of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/search\/?search=Nintendo+&amp;amp;bcid=201\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo<\/a> slowly becoming a historical entry for the console gaming archives? 2014 might be the year that their existence is under the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>Have you bought a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/offers\/41844318\/Nintendo+Wii+U+Premium+Black\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Wii U<\/a>? If so, tell us in the comments why you made the purchase?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nintendo-Wii-U.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5630\" title=\"Nintendo Wii U\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nintendo-Wii-U.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"658\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Console gaming is currently in a very interesting situation \u2013 two companies are in the final stages before unveiling their new consoles to customers. The Sony PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are on a lot of wish lists for the festive season across the globe. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 continue to be sold<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/160-000-wii-us-sold-worldwide\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}