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If you live in one of the perhaps two million households with a brand-new game console - the number is fuzzy in part because it is impossible to know how many of the one million Xbox Ones and PlayStation 4’s that Microsoft and Sony each sold in separate 24-hour periods in the past week and a half were bought by the same people - you’ve probably already discovered that new consoles, with rare exceptions, don’t come with particularly exciting games.
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(To a calendar pedant, Grand Theft Auto V went on sale in the summer.) It’s not just the best game for the Wii U, it’s the most entertaining game that has been released this fall for any system. Super Mario 3D World, which went on sale Friday, is the best Mario game in years. Worse, as the British video game magazine Edge notes in its newest issue, sales of Wii U in Europe were actually negative for the most recent quarter, which ended in September: Retailers outside of Japan and the Americas returned more consoles to Nintendo than they sold to customers.īut the Wii U is also the only new console with a video game worth playing. The new console was outsold by the seven-year-old Wii in the second quarter, from April to June. In the first nine months of this year, Nintendo shipped fewer than one million Wii U’s. Since then, however, whatever enthusiasm existed for it seems to have been kidnapped and locked, to borrow a bit of Nintendo fantasy, in a Mushroom Kingdom castle. The console got off to a decent start, shipping three million units worldwide in 2012. The sales numbers for the Wii U, especially in contrast to the 100-million-selling Wii, have been almost unbelievably woeful. A year into its existence, this follow-up to the Wii is flirting with a reputation as the game console equivalent of Microsoft’s star-crossed Zune music player, which was well designed and had fierce devotees - among the few people who actually bought one. That sounds like the setup to a bad video game joke. I now have the brand-new Sony PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s even newer Xbox One under my television set, but I spent the weekend with the Nintendo Wii U instead.