Wii U To Launch In Time For Year-End Holiday Season

Ishaan Sahdev

Published: Jan 26, 2012 08:30 am

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Late last year, Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, stated that E3 2012 would involve a re-unveiling for the company’s Wii U console, which was scheduled for release at an unspecified time in 2012.

Speaking with Reuters, Iwata has now confirmed that Nintendo will release the Wii U will be launched in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia for the year-end holiday season.

Recent comments by Iwata have also indicated that, after a harsh lesson learnt through the Nintendo 3DS launch, Nintendo plan to have stronger software available at the launch of the Wii U in order to sell the system.

Thus far, a price for the Wii U has not been announced either.

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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.