Nintendo Is Hurtin' In Japan, NX Really Needs To Be Out Sooner Than Later

[Soundwave]

zorg1000 said:

Soundwave said:

I'm saying it more as a counterpoint to people here at VGC who really push the "Nintendo can just sleepwalk to 2017/2018 no worries here" ... errr, some people need to wake up and actually look at some of the data that's coming ... they can't sustain this in Japan for another 2 years. 

The general consensus seems to be that 3DS is getting a successor in Q4 2016/Q1 2017, which gives it roughly the same length life as DS, so u made a thread dedicated to the select few people who for some reason believed 3DS would have a 7+ year life without a successor?

I don't think 3DS can have even a 6 year cycle.

5+ year cycles are supposed to be reserved really for platforms that are 100+ million sellers or have extremely strong second half lifecycle sales like the PS3/360 did (because they both started off fairly expensive and early in the cycle of HDTV adoption).