Do you think Nintendo will be relevent next gen?

[zorg1000]

torok said:

zorg1000 said:

 

Overall Nintendo hardware sold this generation will likely be somewhere right in the middle of Microsoft/Sony hardware.

Microsoft-60 million

Nintendo-85 million

Sony-135 million

If that's the case than Nintnedo is very relevant especially when u consider how much Nintendo-published software sells.

 

As I said, they are being irrelevant in home consoles. In handhelds they are the driving force. The only thing that would change that would be an eventually full mobile takedown of the entire handheld segment.

Which is why I think Nintendo needs to unify their hardware and allow all software to be playable on either device. Their really isn't much point in heavily investing in R&D and making exclusive software for devices that will only sell 15-20 million (GC & Wii U).

In this scenario, even if the console variant sells Wii U numbers and the handheld market continues to shrink, they should still be able to sell a combined 50-70 million (console 15-20m, handheld 35-50m) which is a large enough install base for their ip to sill strong numbers on and for 3rd parties to find some success. That's honestly a worst case scenario, if Nintendo gets the price/marketing/software right than its entirely possible they sell better than 3DS/Wii U.