Nintendo 8th gen hardware sales per year

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generic-user-1 said:

zorg1000 said:

Clearly their successors will be out for 1-2 years by 2018 and will be around the time Nintendo officially discontinues 3DS/Wii U, retailers will not likely just be selling off their final units.

yes, clearly there will be a new nintendo console next year, we all know that and nintendo will talk about it at e3.  

 

 

greetings from 2017...

Yes, it's pretty clear to almost everybody that Nintendo will be releasing new hardware in 2016/2017.

3DS has already begun to decline, with shipments around 9 million this fiscal year (down from 12-14m in the previous 3 years), New 3DS can help slow down the decline but only an insane person believes it's going to significantly raise sales and extend the lifespan. Nintendo has shipped roughly 3 million Wii U's for 3 years straight, expecting anything significantly higher than that in the following years is niave.

It's logical to assume Nintendo had 1-2 good years left this generation before successors release.