Will Nintendo debut new tech half way through this gen??

[Seece]

zorg1000 said:

Seece said:

snowdog said:
The 3DS is selling fine. What's the point of this thread..?

It's down in every region, down 50% in Japan, and is trending to sell less than 10m this year. For a Nintendo handheld to continuously drop it's not good, it actually peaked in the US in its first year and has stayed at that level ever since.

I agree it's fine right now, I'm just forward thinking. What if it drops from sub 10m this year to sub 7m next year? That's dying platform (PS360 last year) levels isn't it?

Ill bet u it sells over 10 million this year.

I don't do bets, but I would bet against that.

US is down (again) 25% yoy so far and that trends around 2.8 - 3m (down from 3.8m) Europe is similar but slightly less than US. Japan was 4.9m last year, if it continues at being down 50%~ YOY that's a whopping loss of 2.45m there.

US - 3m
Europe - 2.5m
Japan - 2.5m
Rest of WW 10% - 800k~

WW = 8.8m.

Unless we see intervention from Nintendo this is the trending forecast. What will Nintendo do to rectify that? Another Pokemon? Another redesign? Another price cut? Isn't that all a bit too soon?  Redesign and Pokemon gave a good boost but nothing near what was expected, and 3DS is already very cheap, you can get a 2DS in the UK for like £70 if you shop around, insane.