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

[zorg1000]

Yakuzaice said:

zorg1000 said:
That's a bit extreme

2014 Q1-850k
2015 Q1-735k

3DS+Wii U are down about 15% YoY, not nearly as doomed as ur making things out to be.

That assumes that 2014 is a solid point to compare it to.  In 2013 Nintendo hardware was at 1,512k by week 13 in Japan.  In 2012 it was 1,429k.  If we go back to years like 2007 or 2008 it was in the 2-3m range.

zorg1000 said:
6th gen vs 8th gen Nintendo comparison

FY Mar 01-1.06m vs FY Mar 11-1.06m
FY Mar 02-6.49m vs FY Mar 12-4.79m
FY Mar 03-4.98m vs FY Mar 13-6.61m
FY Mar 04-4.14m vs FY Mar 14-5.24m
FY Mar 05-2.68m vs FY Mar 15-3.30m (thru 9 months)

So no, Nintendo is not hurting nearly as much in Japan as u want it to seem.

This ignores that the DS had already launched by that last year and did 2.12m.  If you were to remove the New 3DS from the 8th gen, that would bring the most recent FY down to only 1.55m.  This comparison is also using Nintendo's worst selling console (at the time) and handheld (not counting stuff like VB or G&W) in Japan, so selling comparably isn't something to be happy about.

Here's another way to look at it

NES+Game & Watch

SNES+Gameboy(89-96)

N64+Gameboy(97-03)

GC+Gameboy Advance

Wii U+Nintendo 3DS

Each of these 5 generation have sold about 25 million in Japan give or take a few million.

Wii+Nintendo DS sold like 45 million, they are clearly an outlier and are not what we should base our standards on. No matter what way u want to split it, Nintendo is not in dire straits in Japan in any way, shape or form.