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Nintendo loses $229M for its fiscal year as the Wii U’s nosedive continues

The Wii U home console continues to be a lead weight on Nintendo’s bottom line.

Nintendo suffered both an operating loss and net loss for its fiscal year that ended March 31, as the Wii U’s sales continue to be a problem. The Kyoto, Japan-based company has sold only 6.17 million Wii U game consoles since its November 2012 release, including just 310,000 sold in the most recent quarter.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.