Nintendo today revealed that it has once again lowered its Wii U sales forecast. The firm previously expected to sell nine million Wii U consoles worldwide by the end of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014, but that figure has been reduced to 2.8 million, which is even lower than a recent prediction made by research analyst David Gibson. The company has also slashed its Nintendo 3DS sales forecast to 13.5 million units from 18 million.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said: “Revised consolidated unit sales projections are 13.5 million units of the Nintendo 3DS hardware and 66.0 million units of the Nintendo 3DS software, 1.2 million units of the Wii hardware and 26.0 million units of the Wii software, and 2.8 million units of the Wii U hardware and 19.0 million units of the Wii U software. There are no modifications to our initial projections for the…