Japan will save Nintendo. That company always returns to its homeland in defensive mode, and it works.
As for above, I don't think it will kill Wii U Smash sales, but it will affect console sales into Christmas. Wii U version will also take twice as long to get to a million.
When you compare Monster Hunter 3DS to Wii, the sales just spread about across platforms, which is maybe what we could see happen too.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
