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

[zorg1000]

Soundwave said:

zorg1000 said:

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). 

Like i said, Holiday 2016 is a very, very likely release window for 3DS successor (5.75 years).

3DS in 2014 sold roughly 3.1 million in Japan, this year is currently down 10%, even if that slips down to 20% than 3DS will likely sell 2.5 million in Japan this year. They can afford to just left it scrape along in the first few quarters of 2016 while they build hype for the successor over the holidays.

Again, I don't know where ur going with this.....