| Michael-5 said:
So many things wrong with what you're saying. 1. 3DS is up YoY in North America by roughly 35% so far. It's selling fine here, and with games like Animal Crossing and Pokemon, and maybe a decent 3DS XL colour (Europe and Japan get better colours), 3DS sales could be as much as 50% higher in 2013 in North America as they were last year. So, since basically everything you said is wrong or debatable, why would Nintendo be in trouble? Wii U might be having a slow start, but Wii U also set a record for the longest video game drought (4 months). Wii U sales will pick up with software, and even if it doesn't do as well as Wii U, it wil do much much better then N64/GCN/SNES/NES. |
Where exactly are you getting that figure? The 3DS was down in January and February, and only up slightly in March. Don't think we have gotten concrete April numbers, but at best it is up a few percent. Most likely it is down. Even the overtracked VGC numbers show that it is down YoY. Now granted this is all US sales, but I don't think it is mathematically possible to be down in the US and up 35% in North America.
Shipments in the first quarter of the year were also down 44% YoY.
Setting records for droughts isn't exactly promising for the future of the platform. That's the same thing that killed the Wii, and that system had the advantage of not needing HD development. The NES did 34 million in the Americas and you think the Wii U will do "much better"?
