Nintendo promises to 'enrich' Wii U GamePad after another abysmal year

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Nintendo promises to 'enrich' Wii U gamepad as console's future looks dim
When will the suffering end?

Nintendo has posted its financial report for the financial year that ended on March 31, and it's not a pretty sight.

We didn't expect the Wii U to have had a miraculous recovery but things are a bit worse than we expected: the company sold just 310,000 consoles in the fourth quarter.

All hands on deck

In the meantime Nintendo promises to focus on making more use of the GamePad which has felt somewhat neglected recently.

"By providing software that takes advantage of the Wii U GamePad, utilising its built-in functionality as an NFC reader/writer, and adding Nintendo DS Virtual Console titles to the Wii U software line-up, Nintendo will seek to enrich the value of the Wii U GamePad," the company said in a statement.

Nintendo sees the GamePad as the key differentiator from other consoles, and perhaps the Wii U's last salvation, so the plan is to push out more software that takes advantage of it.

Or maybe Nintendo should just ask TechRadar for some advice. Don't sweat it, guys, we've got this...

Hugh Langley
Hugh Langley

Hugh Langley is the ex-News Editor of TechRadar. He had written for many magazines and websites including Business Insider, The Telegraph, IGN, Gizmodo, Entrepreneur Magazine, WIRED (UK), TrustedReviews, Business Insider Australia, Business Insider India, Business Insider Singapore, Wareable, The Ambient and more.


Hugh is now a correspondent at Business Insider covering Google and Alphabet, and has the unfortunate distinction of accidentally linking the TechRadar homepage to a rival publication.