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Yakuzaice on 20 January 2015
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FromDK said:
Soleron said:

I think Wii U will be down a lot, and 3DS will be flat.

Zelda, Splatoon and Star Fox have limited appeal to the non-Wii U owner compared to Smash and Mario Kart. In particular I think Star Fox's sales are going to prove past-Nintendo right about it not being worth making.

Yes MK8 and smash will be bigger reaosons than splatoon, zelda, mariomaker and starfox.. for people to get a WiiU in 2015..

It dosen't change the fact, that WiiU has an "insane" catalog for the more casual gamer.. (you know..  the big part of the +230 mill owners missing from last gen)

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I think 3DS will be up a lot this year.. how much we have to see.. but i think N3DS will do the same for 3DS, as DSi did for DS

WiiU will also be up (a lot i think) the "should we buy the new Nintendo" are only going up..  and it just beat it's own record in dec. 2014.. (and that was with no pricecut or cristmas deals) So the numbers are in fact backing this up to.

My prediction is... Nintendo 2014 x2 < 2015

So you expect more than 26 million between the Wii U and 3DS this year?  How much more and how will that figure be divided between the systems?  You know 3DS can match its peak year, the Wii U can triple in sales, and that would still fall short of your prediction.

"but i think N3DS will do the same for 3DS, as DSi did for DS"

You think the 3DS will be down slightly this year?  Because that's what happened to the DS the year the DSi came out in the west.  That doesn't really fit with your expectation for the 3DS to be up a lot this year.

As for the Wii U, I'm not sure what evidence there is that parents will suddenly start buying it in droves in 2015.  Its own record in December in the US was not that impressive, and it didn't beat it by all that much.  In Japan, over the same time period, it was down by nearly twice as much as it was up in the US.  So what do those numbers back up?