With Nintendo Switch launching in a month, it isn’t shocking to listen to that Wii U manufacturing has ceased in Japan.
The information was posted on the Nintendo Japan product web page (through reddit), with the message “Production end (in Japan)” underneath a picture of Wii U. .
In March 2016, it was rumored production of the console would cease by the top of the yr. Eight months later, it was reported the manufacturing line could be shut off through the end of the first week of November.
Nintendo denied the report, stating it “was not true” and Wii U manufacturing would proceed as deliberate; nevertheless, the next week the corporate introduced production in Japan would end soon.
The firm stated it would ship 800,000 Wii U hardware units to the worldwide market by the top of its present fiscal yr, which suggests sooner or later, a brand new Wii U console could also be a be exhausting to seek out.
If you need one, you higher seize one shortly, otherwise you’ll should go the used or refurbished route – the latter is all that’s listed on the Nintendo North America’s product page. You can nonetheless decide up new fashions at numerous bodily and on-line retails although, for now.
Wii U was launched in late 2012 and as of December 31, 2016, has sold approximately 13.34 million units throughout its 4 years of availability.
Nintendo Switch will launch on March three.
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