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Soundwave on 15 March 2015
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zorg1000 said:
Mythmaker1 said:

Considering how much Nintendo hardware dropped this generation, it's hardly unprecedented. Especially if they fail to learn the correct lesson from this generation.

Well isn't the general perception around here that Wii/DS were casual flukes and wouldn't be replicated no matter what? If thats the case then wasn't a massive decline inevitable and the generations before that is what we should compare it to? G&W+NES, GB(thru 96)+SNES, GB(beyond 96)+N64, GBA+GC all sold a little over 100 million, 3DS+Wii U are on track to sell 80-90 million so not the huge decline that many people make it out to be.


That's actually a pretty good point. 

I get roughly

99.9 million Nintendo portables + consoles sold from 1995-2000 (N64 + GB/GBC era)

102 million in the GameCube + GBA era (2001-2005)

I'd approximate even conservatively for 90-93 million for the 3DS and Wii U era (73-75 million 3DS LTD, 18 million Wii U LTD). 

Mobile smartphones are a plague on their business to be sure, but maybe they can still reach 75-80 mill for a Fusion platform (then again maybe not, no one knows the future).