Are we talking calendar year shipments, or fiscal year shipments?
Either way it is interesting. The demand for portable consoles has obviously been impacted by the spread of tablet and smartphone gaming. Nintendo need a few more good years out of 3DS to help them get through the storm Wii U is in, so they can launch something new that's a better long-term bet than 3DS and Wii U have been.
It'll be interesting to see how 3DS holds up next year, and whether or not baseline sales can remain stable on the strength of the overall software library and their ongoing sales, whatever new content is coming, and the lower entry point through-out the full year. I really think Nintendo need Wii U and 3DS on the market until late 2016, to give them enough time to prepare a reinvigorating change of direction, and as I said, a better long-term bet. Now would be a good time to invest and ramp up software development capabilities.
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