Nintendo's failure to sell the Wii U led to the release of the Nintendo Switch

Nintendo 's Wii U sales were very low in January and February this year , according to the latest MPD data.

This is worse than any week for the Wii, Xbox 360, or PlayStation 3 .

The Wii was a major turning point in home consoles in more ways than one.

Nintendo pulled back and said that their business is not the Gillette razor blade model where you you give the razor away and you make money on the razor blade.

Nintendo 's Wii U sales were very low in January and February this year .

Nintendo 's new console sold just 57,000 units in January , managing to up that number slightly to 64,000 in February .

In the three months between the start of April and the end of June , the company sold just 160,000 Wii U units globally, which is astonishingly low.

Nintendo made sure you knew exactly what the Switch was about from the moment you saw it's new hip and stylish reveal.

Nintendo has announced that its new Switch console sold 2.74 million units worldwide in less than its first month on sale.

The Nintendo Switch reportedly had a strong start to his life, selling around 1.5 million units in its first week .