Wii sold 172,000 units in the US during April – its lowest ever monthly total.
According to MarketWatch, sales of Nintendo's home console were down 40 per cent on March and 38 per cent on April 2010.
While the DS continues to hold up well, finishing second to the Xbox 360 in the monthly NPD charts, the 3DS had a rough time of it. The new handheld sold 194,000 units it its first full month on sale, well down on the 400,000 it managed in its debut week at the end of March.
Nintendo is widely expected to unveil its successor to the Wii, the top seller among the current generation of gaming consoles, next month at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles.
Nobody knows yet what features the system will contain or exactly when it will be released (current speculation points to next spring at the earliest). But other, bigger questions beg asking: Can the new console match the cultural impact of the original? And will it shore up Nintendo's faltering dominance in the gaming market?
At face value, a follow-up to the Wii -- the first motion-controlled gaming system, which became a breakaway hit with such nontraditional gamers as women and seniors -- would seem to be a slam dunk.
IGN readers were more interested in purchasing that Wii 2, with 39 percent saying they would buy the system, 22 percent saying no and 39 percent undecided.
The survey was conducted online, with 1,508 participants responding. For the purposes of the study, a gamer was defined as someone who played games for at least one hour per week and also spent at least one hour per week on the Internet.
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