| Turkish said: What the hell are you talking about? 3DS hardware picking up?? Have you seen January 3DS sales? Abysmal, its down YoY terribly. Japan is the same situation. Imagine Europe as it's Nintendos weakest region. |
Well you have to take in concideration that two new consoles as now entered the market. The 3DS as perform really well over the holiday season, hardly any reason to call the sales abysmal.
http://www.vgchartz.com/tools/hw_yoy.php?reg=Global&start_year=2011&end_year=2014&console=3DS
But a the same time in order for sales to pick up there need to be major title releases and I don't see anything in the near future.
Kirby and Mario Golf are two title that have a more niche market and never set the sales charts on fire.
Yoshi Island is a major release but it's also another platformer from Nintendo. Nintendo as overtaxed the platformer genre and should really focus on create a few new IPs.
Nintendo as pretty much revealed it's hand on 3DS for Q1 & Q2 2014. It's just seem like they don't have the internal resource to support both the 3DS and WiiU and can't avoid having a drought of software. Nintendo as seem to have lost 3rd party support for both of its console the 3DS and WiiU.
