Nintendo’s Wii U sold more than 460,000 units in December — enough to outpace the sales of its predecessor but not enough to take the top spot in video-game console sales. The Wii U figures, released by Nintendo on Thursday night, are from the NPD Group’s December report on the video-game industry as a whole.
Wii U Outpaces Wii’s Sales Numbers But Still Falls Behind Xbox
Hayley Tsukayama, Washington Post
Fri, 01/11/2013 - 11:57am
Topics: nintendo video game console video games wii wii u
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