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Soundwave on 09 June 2015
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Nuvendil said:
Soundwave said:


GBA had 3 years before the DS was released to succeed it, 3DS will need 6 years probably to get to 80 million at this rate (I'm not even sure if it ever will to be honest). 

This is like saying "well we both finished a 1 KM race, so we're both equal" ... yeah ... not if I finished it in half the time you did. 

But the market is split now, wasn't then.  And disposable income is not as abundant for most people.  Just saying, you have a bad habit of taking numbers in a vacuum.


I'm the first to say the market has changed ... massively. But that doesn't change the fact that (well) there is a massive change. 

Saying we can't compare numbers is saying like we can't compared current Nintendo consoles to older Nintendo console because older Nintendo consoles didn't have to compete against Sony and Microsoft. Well yeah, I think we can all understand that circumstances changed. 

And actually I don't think the 3DS will even hit 80 million. Not even in 6 years. It will probably end its lifecycle between 70-75 million based on how quickly it's year to year shipments are shrinking from Nintendo.