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It's not like has NO games. It has NSMBU which should be a big seller. It has Black Ops 2 which is the biggest third party game.

Jan-June 2013 does look weak though.

They need something, some kind of new breakout hit, they are riding Mario too hard with both the 3DS and Wii U and he's starting to get stale.

Iwata has not done a good job of building new IP for Nintendo which wasn't some kind of casual fad like Wii Sports/Fit/etc. As a result they have to keep milking Mario because it's the only thing they are relatively confident in moving hardware these days.