Experimental42 said:
As long as the games keep coming, sales/profit will only go up. Nintendo has now fixed the major problem with their lack of games so that a drought like that never happens again. They've mastered HD development, learned the magic of outsourcing asset creation, have stepped in to buy up rights to games that have struggled, opened their franchises up to second party development, and expanded their size to make even more games as seen by the creation of a new EAD team. 2015 has more games, and there are still games just as important as Mario Kart and Smash: Zelda and "3D"Mario. People are blinded by Mario Kart because it caught fire with casuals last gen, but every other gen it's pretty much on even footing with or less important than Mario platformers. There's also mid tier games like Star Fox, Metroid, and any of the spinoffs that are coming. If they had the end of 2014 lineup ready when Mario Kart8 came out their sales never would have died off from that 4 month drought. That situation will not arise again if they get momentum back. |
That is not how consoles sales work, sales don't pick up later cause gamers are looking for a second console, GC sales kept declining as the generation went on.
Don't mention games like Metroid or "3D Mario" that haven't even been announced yet and have no proof they are even coming out in 2015, grasping at straws like that devalues your whole point.