{"id":6718,"date":"2015-01-15T20:44:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T01:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=6718"},"modified":"2015-02-20T13:19:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T18:19:43","slug":"wii-u-closes-out-2014-with-biggest-sales-month-in-the-systems-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2015\/01\/wii-u-closes-out-2014-with-biggest-sales-month-in-the-systems-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii U Closes out 2014 with Biggest Sales Month in the System&#8217;s History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wii U established new benchmarks for hardware and software sales in a single month in December. This helped total hardware and software sales in 2014 increase by more than 29 percent and more than 75 percent, respectively, over sales in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo 3DS also had a strong December, including its largest month ever for first-party software sales. This was primarily fueled by Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, which has already surpassed 2 million combined physical and digital units sold in a little more than three months, and Pok\u00e9mon Omega Ruby and Pok\u00e9mon Alpha Sapphire, which have combined to sell over 2.6 million physical and digital units in their first six weeks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cWii U had its strongest year yet thanks to the highly anticipated software lineup and the introduction of the amiibo platform,\u201d said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America\u2019s executive vice president of Sales &amp; Marketing. \u201cFans can anticipate another strong year for 2015, especially with more highly anticipated games like Splatoon and The Legend of Zelda: Majora\u2019s Mask 3D, as well as New Nintendo 3DS XL, arriving in the first half of 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other Nintendo highlights from the full 2014 year include:<\/p>\n<h2>Wii U<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U sold over 1.7 million physical and digital units and 1.3 million physical and digital units, respectively, in 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Total sales of amiibo figures in 2014 are nearly twice the sales of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Nintendo 3DS<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2014, 16 Nintendo 3DS titles sold at least 250,000 units. Of those titles, eight sold more than 500,000 units and three sold over 1 million units.<\/li>\n<li>In 2014, the top 15 best-selling hand-held titles were all released on the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nintendo is looking to ride the wave of momentum into 2015, with the launches of Splatoon, Yoshi\u2019s Woolly World, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. and Mario Party 10. On Feb. 13, Nintendo will also launch the New Nintendo 3DS XL in the United States alongside The Legend of Zelda: Majora\u2019s Mask 3D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wii U established new benchmarks for hardware and software sales in a single month in December. This helped total hardware and software sales in 2014 increase by more than 29 percent and more than 75 percent, respectively, over sales in 2013. Nintendo 3DS also had a strong December, including its largest month ever for first-party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[75],"tags":[1386,1385,1395],"class_list":["post-6718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo-wii-u","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-3ds","tag-nintendo-wii-u"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wii_u_deluxe_set.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-1Km","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8341,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2015\/10\/super-mario-maker-drives-110-percent-lift-in-wii-u-hardware-sales\/","url_meta":{"origin":6718,"position":0},"title":"Super Mario Maker Drives 110 Percent Lift in Wii U Hardware Sales","date":"October 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Nintendo released some sales numbers today for the Wii U console and the numbers are very positive. 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