Nick Barber covers general technology news in both text and video for IDG News Service. The Wii U Basic Set costs $299.99 and includes a white game console with 8GB of storage and a gamepad. The Wii U Deluxe Set costs $349.99 and includes a black game console with 32GB of storage, a gamepad and cradle and the "Nintendo Land" video game. The console war will continue in 2013 as Ward predicts that both Sony and Microsoft will debut their next generation consoles at the E3 game expo in Los Angeles in June. Ward predicts that even with the launch of a new console, Nintendo will come in third in sales this holiday season behind Microsoft and Sony.
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Now the popularity of the Xbox 360 and PS3 far exceeds that of the Wii and whether Nintendo's newest console can help the company regain lost ground remains to be seen. Wii U also allows you to experience your favorite Nintendo worlds. Packed with every Wii U console is the revolutionary new Wii U gamepad controller, featuring an embedded touchscreen to give you a second window into your gaming world. It's been six years since the first Wii launched and kicked off a motion gaming craze that Microsoft and Sony had to match. Nintendo Wii U is an entirely new system that will change the way you experience entertainment. "As far as I can tell there aren't any issues around the hardware availability and those sorts of things," Ward said. He said that an artificial shortage isn't bad, but that at the same time Nintendo needs to have enough supply to hit the 5.5 million units that company president Satoru Iwata is projecting in its first year on sale. "In one sense, selling out is a good thing because you're going to get all the press of selling out like Apple does," Ward said. One GameStop retailer near Boston said that the store only had five units, all of which have already been preordered. Nintendo hasn't said how many units it will have available at launch, but did say that it was more than the first Wii, which went on sale in 2006. "In my testing of 'Nintendo Land,' I think it gets the point across while you're having fun," Ward said. The other players play on the big screen and can't see the ghost. It includes a game called "Luigi's Ghost Mansion" where the player holding the gamepad acts as the ghost chasing after other players. To see Wii U game play and our analysis, watch a video on YouTube.Ī suite of games called "Nintendo Land" ships with the Wii U Deluxe Set, which costs US$350. For example, in one game called "ZombieU" the gamepad is used as a sniper rifle scope, which allows players to zoom in on a potential target before pulling the trigger. The Wii U gamepad includes a small screen for what Nintendo calls asymmetric gaming or where the information displayed on the gamepad differs from what's shown on the main television screen. He said he hasn't been able to try the new "Call of Duty" with the Wii U, but is interested in seeing how the Wii U's "gamepad" will work with it. "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" will be one of the launch window titles, which should attract the hard-core audience, according to Ward. They've got the family market down pat and now they're trying to go back and get some of the core audience." "And what we're seeing from Nintendo is that they're going the other way. Modern consoles regularly sell tens of millions of units throughout their lifespan, and the most popular products, including PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, Game Boy, and Nintendo Wii, boast sales of over 100 million units."The HD platforms have branched out into the areas where Nintendo has historically done very well with the younger kids and teens," he said in an interview. Throughout the decades since, console gaming has exploded in popularity and become a massive global industry. Magnovox released its Odyssey console in 1972, making it the first video game console ever made. Today, as one of the biggest names in the video game industry, the company ranks among the most valuable brands in the world and generates billions of dollars each year through the sales of its consoles, games, and merchandise.
Nintendo began as a small Japanese playing card manufacturer in 1889.
During the product’s run as Nintendo’s flagship console, the Wii spawned some of the best-selling console games of all time, such as Wii Sports, Mario Kart Wii and Wii Sports Resort, each selling tens of millions of units. Partially due to the release of Nintendo’s newest console, the Nintendo Switch, sales of the company’s Wii and Wii U consoles fell to zero in 2018.