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Forums - Sales Discussion - Nintendo's install base shrunk from 250 million in Gen 7 to ~80 million in Gen 8

Pyro as Bill on 14 May 2017
Robert_Downey_Jr. said:
The fall of mobile is hitting Nintendo hard. They don't have home console dominance to fall back on like Sony

Mobile hasn't fallen. Nintendo is back where they were before DS and Sony are back where they were before PSP.



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mysteryman on 14 May 2017
the_dengle said:
That's not how that works

That's not how any of this works

Should the vgchartz signup process be changed to include a basic mathematics skills test?



tbone51 on 14 May 2017
the_dengle said:
That's not how that works

That's not how any of this works

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tbone51 on 14 May 2017
Robert_Downey_Jr. said:
The fall of mobile is hitting Nintendo hard. They don't have home console dominance to fall back on like Sony

The switch seems to be doing fine



Zod95 on 14 May 2017
Turkish said:

From a combined 250 million sold units with the Wii/DS shrunk to barely 80 million with WiiU/3DS.

Will Switch really be a success with only 80 million lifetime sales, if it reaches that number at all, knowing it's the only Nintendo platform going forward? 80 million wouldn't have been a growth but stagnation over last gen.

Hard to tell if the sum of two poor results is a success. WiiU was horrible. 3DS was mediocre. But the market is shrinking and there's always some overlap between home consoles and handhelds clients.

If NS actually replaces 3DS and sells 80M, I will say those sales are ok (not really a success and not really a flop).



Prediction made in 14/01/2014 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 70M      WiiU: 25M

Prediction made in 01/04/2016 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 18M

Prediction made in 15/04/2017 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 90M      XOne: 40M      WiiU: 15M      Switch: 20M

Prediction made in 24/03/2018 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 110M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 14M      Switch: 65M

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crissindahouse on 14 May 2017

It was not Nintendo's fault that Sony gave Nintendo so many customers last gen who switched from PS2 to Wii and not PS3.



Namiirei on 14 May 2017

Switch will never reach 80 millions. Not even 50 millions tho.

And that's why nintendo will work on a new handheld console.



Green098 on 14 May 2017
Namiirei said:
Switch will never reach 80 millions. Not even 50 millions tho.

And that's why nintendo will work on a new handheld console.

Ah I see we have a time traveller amongst us.

Not saying it will reach 80 million but I'm not saying it won't cause we have no possible way in knowing that, it has the potential to sell anything. Not even Nintendo ever saw the Wii selling 100 million units in it's lifetime, so who knows with the Switch or any piece of hardware what it's lifetime sales figures will be.



Pavolink on 14 May 2017

I don't get why people have to compare with Sony. First let Sony sell 250m devices a single gen and then we talk.



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tbone51 on 14 May 2017
Zod95 said:
Turkish said:

From a combined 250 million sold units with the Wii/DS shrunk to barely 80 million with WiiU/3DS.

Will Switch really be a success with only 80 million lifetime sales, if it reaches that number at all, knowing it's the only Nintendo platform going forward? 80 million wouldn't have been a growth but stagnation over last gen.

Hard to tell if the sum of two poor results is a success. WiiU was horrible. 3DS was mediocre. But the market is shrinking and there's always some overlap between home consoles and handhelds clients.

If NS actually replaces 3DS and sells 80M, I will say those sales are ok (not really a success and not really a flop).

80mil is not really a success? Think about that for a minute.