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Nintendo President Comments on Wii U Sales Jan 7th 2013, 17:22 Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has commented on Wii U's sales through the end of 2012. In an interview with Reuters, Iwata said Wii U is "selling steadily" but that by the end of the year it was still short of the original Wii's launch. "At the end of the Christmas season, it wasn't as though stores in the U.S. had no Wii U left in stock, as it was when Wii was first sold in that popular boom," Iwata said. "But sales are not bad, and I feel it's selling steadily." Iwata didn't provide the exact number of systems sold, but Reuters notes that Nintendo sold 638,339 Wii U consoles in Japan between December 8 and 30. Added to the 400,000 units sold in America in November, worldwide sales have surpassed one million units to date. Back in October, Iwata said he hopes to sell 5.5 million by the end of Nintendo's fiscal year in March. Continue reading…

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