Nintendo HDS 2016 or 2017?

[tbone51]

Soundwave said:

tbone51 said:

teigaga said:

the_dengle said:

2016 would be a terrible move.

Just cuz its yoy down from last year  doesn't mean it will heavily decline again from this year to the next (2014⇒2015). 3DS first 3 years were all 12mil-14mil sold. This year it should be around 7.5mil-9mil sold (currently around 6.2mil). Thats not bad for 4th year and 5th year N3DS should keep the decline to a minimum. I say 7mil-7.5mil 3DS will be sold in 2015. It might even be up....

As for SW drying up... Really? SSB 3DS+ORAS say hello. Next year could have many million sellers as well. There's still Software to come in 2015

Anything under 10 million is *horrible* for Nintendo. 

They have not had handheld shipments that low in almost 20 years. 

That's not a sustainable number of sales for them to earn the types of profits they want especially not when their console division has also gone to crap. 

People always bring up the GBA-GCN days but even they were clearly 16-17 million GBAs a year + 4+ million GCNs. To ask them to go down to 7.5 million 3DS + maybe 3 million Wii Us ... is a disaster. 

Was there mobile/tablets f***ing with HHs in all those years though? They earn profits on its SW, not selling a couple million more HW. (yes i know it helps, but its not the entire picture).

Ok i get the past, but we are talking right now. Have you seen recent SW sales? Then there are other factors as well. 3DS under all these conditions are doing alright for itself. Dont kno why you think it HAS to do these amazing numbers :-/