I honestly don`t know what Iwata had in mind to expect 9 million sales for the fiscal year.
When you make so many mistakes and perpetuate them for almost an year, the consequences of those mistakes are going to hit you sooner or later.
Brand confusion, almost no marketing, almost no games for a whole year, were bound to take it`s toll. I`m surprised Iwata didn´t realise that. Again, did he expect to have something more for the fiscal year?
If not for the forecast, Wii U managed to do some relevant recovery in November/December, if we look at what it had to offer throughout 2013.
With the games coming out this year, i see no problem Wii U doing at least twice aswell. Still, i think it´s time for Nintendo to reconsider a serious change in strategy, otherwise they will risk on hampering Wii U`s recovery.
3DS missing goal by that much is strange, but i think that if it wasn`t for the PS4 and XB1 hype it could have done better - even if still failing the overall projection target.
I think once hype for PS4 and XB1 settle down and demand comes to normal levels, then we will see how the rest of the market will behave. Until then, those 2 consoles will probably affect sales of everything else.
