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

[tbone51]

Yakuzaice said:

zorg1000 said:

In terms of hardware they are fine, 25 million per generation in Japan is strong and the average when excluding DS/Wii era. As for consoles, I strongly believe that Nintendo is going to fully unify their devices by having their handheld and consoles share a library, it just comes down to individual preferences on form factor, that alone helps reduce R&D costs of hardware by not having to make 2 completely seperate devices and it's helps with software because no longer is there an install base issue, games on Wii U simply can't sell high numbers because they are stuck on a console with 3 million or so lifetime sales, that is fixed when every game is available to the 20-25 million install base of both devices.

Also do those 3DS software sales include eShop exclusives and Virtual Console titles or is it just shipments+digital sales of retail titles?

Pretty sure it only includes digital versions of games available at retail.  However, from what we've seen of Famitsu digital numbers, the best selling digital games are overwhelmingly ones available at retail.  The one digital only game that ever seems to rank (although now there is a retail version) is Minecraft.

Also Kirby Fighter Z, i think that game debuted at 15kish then jumped over 100k later