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One (1) new Wii U console was sold in the U.S. during September 2023

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There's a 99% chance this was me!

Mom and pop shop grocery store near me had one new in box in the back of the store and I nabbed it because my wife and I love the Wii U

Amazing - this is why I love HackerNews.

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>This marks the first time a brand new Wii U console has been sold since May 2022. It remains unclear which retailer sold the Wii U, given that the console was discontinued a few years ago. It is possible that it was a misplaced unit that was rediscovered by the retailer.

YoY Sales of Wii U Grow Exponentially

With an attach rate of zero.

Exponentially isn't a meaningful superlative until the 3rd year

…fine Mr. Nitpick, Poised to Grow Exponentially.

I'm not letting exponentially go the way of literally!

But did they literally mean expontentially?

I pour one out annually.

Literally?

I hate you :) I can only possibly answer Yes. And now having said that, I need one for myself.

Remember, you opened up this nitpick game...

It's true that it wasn't meaningful, but that doesn't make it untrue. Usefully distinctive is orthogonal to true.

When I replaced my damaged car with an exact copy, it was not meaningful yet yet still true, and so a perfectly valid statement, when I said I 'doubled the size of my fleet of yellow Skys'

This skill is useful for resume writing

Any chance this is a clerical error? We see this sometimes in police crime statistics, where an obscure crime is recorded that seems rather unlikely to have actually happened, like detonating an atomic bomb.

They've got half a year to get all of their 1st party online activity in!

I've got an inkling this will be the subject of a youtube video.

This does remind me of when thinkgeek started selling brand new in box dreamcasts. Years after that got discontinued.

This does remind me of when thinkgeek was still a thing.

oh man it was such a beautiful place! bought so many fun things there back in high school (including tons of weird caffeine products like caffeinated soap). made me really sad when they began centering things around cosplay/fan gear and merch. RIP

Might it be this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZVriTVxxsU

As a German this channel's name is hilarious.

(Kot is "defecation", mostly referred to animal waste)

TikTok's all over it

Hmm, is it a console bought for homebrew/modding purposes, or someone who actually left it this long to buy the console for 'official' games?

Kinda want to see an interview with this mystery person to find out!

My bet is on confused older person who wants to buy new Wii for their relative.

Ouch. At 75, this stings just a bit. But I'm smiling as I write this.

I mention it as I just watched a television show where a ~40 year old man fiddles with a Switch and calls it a Wii. Hence "older" not "elderly," I think anyone not paying attention to video games over the age of like 25 could make that mistake.

If I'll ever get to be 75, the world won't be able to stop me from trying to figure out what the kids are memeing about. Currently 26.

I'm sure before you hit 75 you'll start to intentionally call things the wrong name rather then figure out what the right one is.

People get enough of the message when you say that johnny is in the backroom playing wii.

I've got a decade on you: One day you'll hopefully find that the more important parts of your life have expanded in scope to where you just don't have the capacity to care what the kids are memeing about.

I hear there's a brief resurgence when it's your kids doing the memeing, but by then you're too far out of date.

I too thought this when I was 26, I'm 36 now. The world won't stop you, but you may also find you just don't care enough to - you have to be spending a lot of time interactively engaging in a culture to be native to the memes, and that takes a lot of time that you might want to spend learning about / doing other things.

Also starting to realise that my "they can't stop me gaming when I'm 80!" attitude will be self-limited by joint pain at some point... probably in exactly the same way as previous generations, just s/gaming/popular activity of the era/

Yeah, I'm 37 and Simpsons 'I use to be with it' quote hits a bit harder with every passing year.

The good news is I think the fact that more focus is being put into accessibility options in games means there is a chance they will not be able to stop us from gaming when we're 80.

Would be great if I could do this. Got a load of Wii and Wii U games, and an old console, but the game pad has issues and can't find any replacements local to me, or for a reasonable price.

Have you tried contacting Nintendo support? They often offer repairs for quite a long time.

They stopped repairing these. I have one actually got it repaired before they shut everything down.

There's a project floating around that reverse engineers the game pad protocol to allow building a custom replacement with a Linux machine and an Android tablet, but it's a bit involved. The way the WiiU tablet works requires hacking up the Linux wireless stack, IIRC.

Cemu and Dolphin are great, if you feel like homebrewing the console and dumping all your games to play on PC.

On the one hand I wanted to say that a lot of people are not that rich, so they would still happily buy an older PlayStation model and games.

But then I remembered that this is Nintendo and that they would sadly still ask full price for both the console and whatever games would be available.

Prediction: one beaming grandma vs one bemused, crestfallen kid on Christmas morning.

Wii U was a great console. Unfortunately the only game to every utilize it was Nintendo Land.

Playing DS games splitscreen between your TV and gamepad is pretty great. As well as playing gamecube/wii games in your hands.

A shame the homebrew scene is only now getting into major swing with newer more convenient hacks.

I think there's a good chance this was a conscious choice by the buyer. There are quite a few people interested in "vintage" gaming nowadays. I personally would love the chance to play some Wii Sports Resort right now :)

We’d buy one. My wife loves the Wii, and finding decent condition ones is hard.

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