We know we use this piece of art a lot… but this time it’s really appropriate. (credit: Photo by Wired / Manipulated by Aurich Lawson)

Official word of the coming end of the Wii U first came from Nintendo’s own Japanese website (Google Translate) which says that both the base system and a Splatoon bundle will see “production coming to an end soon (in Japan).”

“As recently posted by Nintendo on the Wii U website in Japan, Wii U production will end in the near future for the Japanese domestic market,” Nintendo of America told Ars Technica. “We have nothing to announce in terms of exact timing.”