noname2200 said:
Apples and oranges. To the best of my knowledge, the DS did not sell only half of what Nintendo publicly expected it to in its first month. In fact, the DS's success was far from guaranteed, to the point where even Nintendo took pains to call it the "third pillar" instead of Nintendo's next handheld; they left themselves an out in case they needed to fall back on the Gameboy. That is not the case with the 3DS: they have indisputably put all their handheld eggs into the 3DS basket, and yet they've stumbled out of the gate. |
The point is that we can't just use a company's expectations. PS3 went from failur to sucess? Wii from sucess to failure? Sure, Nintendo expected 1.4 m and it sold 800k, you should take in account about 150-200k by the disaster (looking at how other console fell)...and were they shipped? I think so. And finally, if they expected 800k shipped right now it would be a sucess? No, simply we can't call this judgement 4, I'll repeat. four weeks after launch. Simply thing work different, and as long as I can agree with you about Nintendo's expectations too high, I don't think they are depressed by these sales.
CURRENTLY PLAYING: Xenoblade (Wii), Super mario 3D land (3DS), Guild Wars (PC)
