Joelcool7 said:
You are probably right but considering Reuters is an international news agency and they did not specify in the article that they were only refering to Japanese sales. It really shows flaws in their article, especially when they say 14-million units will be sold they are refering to global sales and obviously not just Japanese. It almost appears as if Reuters was paid off to say what they said. The article makes very little business sense and is largely a biased peice of crap. Coloring the 3DS as a dead peice of tech to be replaced by smart phones is really irrational. DS and PSP did fine against phones all this time and DS continues to do fine. Software on handheld devices have made more profit then their smart phone counter parts. Lets face it, yes Nintendo is in real danger if they don't act fast. But smart phones aren't going to kill 3DS infact 3DS is doing alright its just not as big as DS was. People from Reuters and other news agency lack a basic understanding of the industry, consoles don't always shatter 140-million units. Infact the majority of the time its around 30-40 million units. This doesn;t indicate Nintendo is dead or anywhere near they just aren't going to be as profitable this generation if they don't take drastic measures. Which is evidently exactly what they are doing! |
'In Japan, 3DS sales leaped to more than 200,000 units in the week of the price cut, but swiftly fell back to about 55,000 units'. You must have missed it. I even commented on that sentence in my comments after the article.
But I agree the article doesn't make much sense.
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