Selvom det går sløvt for Wii U, har Nintendo ingen planer om at forsøge at sætte gang i salget ved at sænke prisen på maskinen. Det slår Nintendo-bossen Saturo Iwata fast i en spørgerunde med selskabets aktionærer.
Iwata siger blandt andet: "Regarding Wii U, it is not easy to make a significant profit with the current units sold. The price reduction of the hardware in the overseas markets represents a large amount of our total expenditure for this fiscal year, but based on the premise that we will not make such a reduction in the next fiscal year, I think our business can operate without such a negative effect on our profitability."
Nintendo indrømmer nu også, at Wii U næppe kommer til at præstere salgstal som dem, dens forgænger formåede. Men Iwata siger, at det aldrig er for sent for konsollen at lave et comeback:
"With regard to Wii U, it is not realistic to hope that it will sell 100 million units in the same product cycle as Wii. On the other hand, I believe it is never too late and it is possible to achieve a certain level of sales volume and a certain level of results with Wii U depending on how we write its scenario."