Why are people saying the 3DS is selling badly?

[Mr.Playstation]

Ninsect said:

ExplodingBlock said:

Ninsect said:

Mr.Playstation said:

What Ninty needs now is not a succesful console, but customer loyalty wich they are somewhat regaining this gen. That's all they have, left no gimicks will reseruct them now, if they release a new handheld they will lose a ton of customer loyalty.

Why?

I'm saying the handheld will release in more than a year, maybe even 1.5 years. 3DS sales will be down to 60-70k at most per week by then. They can't live on that forever and another 60k from WiiU.

This is exactly what Sega did, they kept releasing consoles to fast, they lost customer loyalty and now look at them

Nintendo have been releasing consoles fast for many years now. Have they lost loyalty?

 

I highly doubt that releasing a new console every 7 years and 6 years (respectively) is considered "fast".

DS (2004) + 7 years= 3DS (2011)

Wii (2006) + 6 years = wii u (2012)

The shortest life-cycle for a Nintendo console before its succesor was released was 4 years which was the Gamecube.