| Vena said: The stock downward spike and drop in RSI makes me think this was a large robotic fear sell-off on stocks due to the overall poor trends from Nintendo's console hardware (both the aging 3DS and the struggling WiiU). Software trends and digital trends being up, however, mean that there are actually good income sources that aren't just coming from the exchange rate. Strong software sales are promising but they are limited by the WiiU's small audience, the 3DS is less limited and is actually selling software as expected (tie ratio) for a handheld. Its overall hardware numbers won't live up to the DS but times have changed and that era of sales is a bygone epoch. |
3DS software forecast was just dropped by 6 million. So while the Wii U forecast is up, overall it is mixed. It's also not just the Wii/DS era that they aren't living up to. At the equivalent time period from release the Gamecube shipped 47.37m software (versus a forecasted 25m for the Wii U) and the GBA shipped 84.57m (versus a forecasted 61m for the 3DS).
