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Soundwave on 18 September 2015
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TheLastStarFighter said:
Soundwave said:


Even so, realistically the console will be the passenger in the NX equation, the portable is going to have to do all the driving. Nintendo (traditional) consoles just don't sell very well, and that console against a 3-4 year old PS4/X1 has little/no chance. 

Not necessarily.  We really don't know what the vision is yet. I could see scenarios where the handheld is dropped entirely in favour of mobile devices. 


52 million 3DS

versus

10 million Wii Us

80% of Nintendo fans choose the handheld over the console as is. And the ratio was the same for the GBA versus the GameCube. Wii is an outlier becuase it attracted casual players (mostly women), but even there the DS outsold the Wii by a huge margin. Heck if we go back even further we see the Game Boy/Color massively outsold the N64 as well. 

Basically since Sony has entered the game business, Nintendo's consoles have certainly become no.2 in the sales pecking order for Nintendo. It's not even close really. 

If Nintendo is dropping their traditional portable business, they may as well just go third party honestly. It would be akin to Sony ditching consoles in favor of the PSP/Vita business.