zorg1000 on 07 January 2015
| UncleScrooge said: Bad numbers everywhere. Year over year even the 3DS is down massively despite the redesign: 5 million in 2013 vs 3 million in 2014. Japan has always been the 3DS's strongest market but it will be painful to watch Nintendo's sales in 2015 / 2016 before their next generation of hardware arrives. How are they supposed to make money with the Wii U below 5m and the 3DS probably below 10m in 2015? Vita is painful to watch, too. Japan is its only healthy market and seeing it that low is bad. Wii U is far below Gamecube in yearly sales (GC sold roughly 1m units per year in Japan for most of its life) and that won't change next year. And Xbox One is selling way below what the 360 did in Japan (back when Microsoft really tried to push the system). Market doesn't look healthy right now. |
For the first three quarters of the year, 3DS was trending down 50% YoY, for the last quarter it's sales were basically flat YoY so the redesign did in fact help out sales by quite a bit. Also they make money by selling consoles at a profit while also selling a ton of 1st party software along with Amiibo and accessories.
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