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Soundwave on 18 February 2014
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Jumpin said:
reggin_bolas said:
Jumpin said:
Over dramatic Nintendo is doomed thread #314361

These sorts of threads have been going on for almost two decades now. You can safely hold back those tears young boy and realize that each generation offers new opportunities; and Nintendo's hardware staff is at work devloping the way to best exploit them.

Sometimes they fail, but typically companies do not dominate more than 1-2 generations in a row. Nintendo has about a 50% rate of winning generations.


Huh? You do realize Nintendo consoles have been selling less and less each generation. The only exception is the original Wii. So far the Wii U is on the track to be the worst selling Nintendo console since I guess the virtual boy. 

Nintendo is on a downward spiral of irrelevance. 

Aside from being overdramatic too, you contradict your first sentence with your second. The Wii wasn't the only exception, nor is it only an exception. The Wii and DS were Nintendo's highest selling home console and handheld console in history. This generation doesn't speak for their next generation of consoles. The Wii and DS are irrefutable proof that all it takes is a single generation to turn things around.

Nintendo portables have been selling fairly consistently for the last 15 years, DS peaked higher but the GBC and GBA were all big sellers and while the 3DS is a decline is still holding OK at least. The GBA probably would've hit 120 million or so if its lifecycle was not cut short, it sold at a considerably better rate than the 3DS is (18 million peak year shipment versus 13 million for the 3DS so far). 

If we remove the motion gaming craze of the Wii, its pretty irrefutable that Nintendo consoles are a on a large downward decline though. 

NES (65 mill) - SNES (49 mill) - N64 (33 mill) - GameCube (22 mill) - Wii U (on pace for 16-17 mill) is actually fairly (and alarmingly) consistent. 

Maybe they can come up with another Wiimote like miracle that saves them next hardware cycle, but we've seen this generation that such a strategy can also be incredibly risky ... if the audience doesn't take to your new novelty as well as they did to your past one, you can be totally screwed. Worst of all Nintendo somehow managed to make a controller so expensive this generation that it's even causing them to bleed money.