| Pineapple said: The industry isn't really performing that shabbily overall. Total worldwide sales so far in 2011 are 20.7 million, as opposed to 23.4 million in the same period last year. Granted, it's a 10 percent drop, but I wouldn't call it fear inspiring. We've actually been on a decline for this period of the year ever since 2008.
The 2004 number might be a bit inaccurate, but it seems quite plausible to me. While 2011 (so far) is the smallest year since the DS launched, it's still a decently sized year. The industry isn't doing very rubbishly hardware wise. |
Surely you won't consider the ~2.7m addition by 3DS a non-factor here? None of '07-'10 had new hardware launches. '11 had a fairly large one and is actually declining at a faster rate than ever (well, more or less). Granted that most of that is attributable to the beyond-horrible-makes-me-cry performance of the Wii, but still.
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