Nintendo Wii U launches amid delays in implementing new TV-viewing service
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Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Nintendo Co., working to prove it can still succeed by marrying its hardware to exclusive software, began selling the Wii U console amid tight supplies and delays in implementing a new TV-viewing service.
The first new video-game console for U.S. homes since 2006, the Wii U initially won’t offer the Nintendo TVii service that the Kyoto, Japan-based company has touted as a centerpiece of its capabilities. The feature will be available sometime in December, the company said on Nov. 16, without being specific.
“The value of Wii U goes well beyond day one,” Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo’s North America president, said in a statement. “Nintendo will be enhancing the Wii U experience with continuous updates and new services for Wii U owners.”
Analysts have suggested the company should get out of the business of making hardware that sells for $300 or more and focus instead on selling popular games based on its iconic Mario and Zelda characters for play on others’ tablets and smartphones. Company executives say they won’t change course.
“By creating software and marrying it to strong hardware, we believe we create ground-breaking experiences,” Fils-Aime said in a September interview.
Nintendo is likely to sell 3.5 million units in the U.S. this year, according to researcher IHS Screen Digest. The company may also sell all it can make in the first six months, said Michael Pachter, a Los Angeles-based analyst at Wedbush Securities Inc. Demand after that may be average about 10 million units a year, he said.
By comparison, sales of the original Wii totaled 5.84 million units in the four months after its November 2006 release, and 18.6 million in the 12 months ended March 2008, according to the company.
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Ah, so it begins. The grand journey of the next era of gaming! Wii U kicks off from the starting line. Let's see how the race goes!
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