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Soundwave on 12 December 2013
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Purple said:
Soundwave said:
I think drastic changes are coming at Nintendo, even Iwata basically said they were waiting to see how this holiday season goes first.

They can't cruise just on 3DS, the smartphone/tablet industry is like a slow moving cancer that month by month damages the handheld gaming business IMO as each month more and more kids are introduced to playing on those devices (slowly but surely).

Tablet-less Wii U for $199.99 next spring IMO alongside Mario Kart 8 is their only chance at salvaging some out of this disaster. Wii U is definitely a full on disaster now, I think we can call it that now. It's not even close to GameCube sales level.

Totally agree with everything. It will be interesting to see what these drastic changes end up being, but if it's just removing the tablet I doubt it will make much of a difference.

Super cheap Wii U at an impulse buy price is probably their only play, but you're right. Even $99.99 didn't neccessarily "save" the GameCube from finishing with a paltry 22 million. 

I'm also really, really thinking hard about where the 3DS is going to end up, because I don't think 90 million+ is neccessarily a lock anymore. I'm just not seeing a sales "explosion" from it, but rather a machine that kinda sells 13-15 million units per year and doesn't have the life span of the DS.