GameStop Has Recalled All Unopened Wii U Basic Sets/ Wii U basic bundle disappears from Best Buy, Target and GameStop online shops.

Several GameStop stores have confirmed to CNET that all new and unopened Wii U Basic Set models on store shelves are to be returned. The reason for the recall is currently unknown, but the return takes place on Tuesday, June 18th, which is exactly one week after Nintendo’s E3 Nintendo Direct presentation on the 11th of this month. Unlike the Wii U Deluxe Set, the Wii U Basic Set has only 8GB of memory and doesn’t come packaged with party game Nintendo Land.

Nintendo of America senior director of corporate communications, Charlie Scibetta, has provided the following statement to IGN:

“There is a current misperception about Wii U hardware. To clarify: Nintendo is working with its retail partners to simply rebalance the stock of the White 8GB and the Black 32GB Wii U models in the market. Consumers looking for either model will continue to find them available.”

Zero Revolution wrote:Hm now that I think about it...I mentioned my Wii wouldn't read discs right? I've heard a lot of other Wiis that were launch Wiis did that as well recently. So maybe they knew about this beforehand even though it's like 7 years later?

So what I think is that there may be a problem with Wii U Basic packages, and they're recalling them for that very reason.

Despite a report claiming that GameStop is discontinuing the Wii U 8GB Basic model, Nintendo UK says that the console will still continue to go on sale in the United Kingdom. Yesterday Kotaku received information from a GameStop employee email that the leading North American video game retailer will be discontinuing the model from the 18th of June. It sounds fairly likely that this will happen worldwide, but Nintendo just isn’t ready to announce this yet. We should hear more on June 11th at 3pm BST.

The Best
Buy flyer says "stores should pull all new in box units and send them
back" on June 10-11. "Stores should expect to see more Wii U deluxe
units arriving in the coming weeks."

The black
32 GB Wii U Deluxe, which has sold for $350 and includes a game, doesn't
appear to be going anywhere, though a price drop is surely possible.
Note that Best Buy is anticipating more Wii U Deluxe units, perhaps a
sign that Nintendo is going to start delivering the announced-for-Japan
white 32GB unit in North America soon, too.

Expect to find out more on June 11 at 10am ET, 7am PT when Nintendo holds its big online Nintendo Direct to kick off E3. And, remember, Best Buy is partnering
with Nintendo next week to let shoppers play Nintendo's E3 Wii U demos
at the stores. Surely they're on top of whatever Nintendo's got planned.

Recently it has been reported that EB Games is doing a recall on the Wii U White 8GB Pack. This information is incorrect. We are currently conducting a stock rebalance, which is standard procedure with all of our products and involves sending a portion of our stock back to our Head Office to get redistributed. All stores still have inventory of this product, and will continue to stock it as per normal for the foreseeable future.