I think they meant before now. The 3DS is selling 50k ish a week in europe and the Us now. Its definitly a sucess.
I do think theres a general expectation from analysts that new consoles perform as well or better than the ones from past generations, but this completely ignores the evolution of the economic situation in the world and how pressing these new consoles/updates really look like.
Graphics nuts will jump the gun on me here, but the fact is the graphical jump from one generation to the next is increasingly harder to feel. This makes upgrades feel like less of a necessity and more of an excess. This means that the barrier to adoption of a new console is increasingly higher from generation to generation.
This leads me to believe that console sales will be slow until this barrier is broken down by several quality pieces of software. When that barrier is broken then people start adopting the new console. Its whats happening now with the 3DS.
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