Nintendo Hope To Sell 5.5 Million Wii U Consoles By March 31st

Ishaan Sahdev

Published: Oct 24, 2012 11:00 am

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With the Nintendo 3DS not performing as well as expected outside Japan, and their annual profit forecast slashed in half, Nintendo will have to turn to the Wii U to help turn their fortunes around by the end of this financial year.

This morning, Nintendo announced that they hope to sell 5.5 million Wii U consoles and and 24 million units of Wii U software by March 31st, 2013. This is the first time that Nintendo have announced a sales target for the system.

Meanwhile, as previously reported, Nintendo’s sales forecast for the Nintendo 3DS is being lowered from 18.5 million to 17.5 million for the financial year.

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Ishaan Sahdev

Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.