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JWeinCom on 26 April 2014
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Jay70sgamer said:
JWeinCom said:
Losing 1/3 of your market in a period of time where your Sony's marketshare diminished to practically 0 is in no way a success.


So based on your logic ...the playstation 3 is a failure because its predecessors ps1 and ps2 sold over 100,000,000 and the playstation sold 80,000,000+Which is 50 and 20 percent decline in consoles sold for ps3 ...come on it's a success ..any device that brings a profit to your company is a success maybe not as big as a success that nintendo wanted, also you have to take into account tablets,cellphones etc being so big in this generation and for them to sell over 50,000,000 is a great accomplishment..also  it's the software sales that matters most and it has sold a lot of software so yes it's a success ....just saying


Well, I mispoke in my original post.  50 million would actually be 1/3 of the DS sales, meaning they'd have lost 2/3.

And yeah, I don't think the PS3 was a success.  I'm pretty sure it lost Sony money in the long run, and it lost them a huge chunk of marketshare. 

I don't know why people keep saying tablets like that's an excuse.  It's Nintendo's job to make sure that their product is appealing, and it's their job to adapt to a changing market.  If they don't do that, it's a failure on their part. 

Software sales are way down for the 3DS.  2008 software sales for the DS were 155 million.  2013 DS sales were 57 million.  The same gap in hardware is showing up in software.  So, that'd not an argument for success.

As for the whole, "if it makes a profit it's a success" argument, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

I love my 3DS, and good on Nintendo for saving it from total disaster, but it's simply not a success.  I'm not sure if I'm comfortable using the word failure though.