potato_hamster said:
The problem, and one people like you continue to ignore, is that that ecosystem is shrinking every day and they're doing absolutely nothing to try to expand it. If Nintendo is only selling 70 million home console and handhelds combined over one "generation" then that's not great. Many people consider the PS3 to be a failure and it's sold close to 85 million, and that's just one console, not 2. The fact of the matter is that Nintendo has on much larger numbers than 70 million combined lifetime for it to be "worth it to them". I mean the Gameboy Advance did 80 + million and that was only the lead handheld platform for three years. Now we're talking about Nintendo's total hardware sales being 15% less than that and that being acceptable. |
There is no proof that the appeal of Nintendo in general has decreased, we literally have one single generation of decline, we can't base a trend off of one single data point. I know Nintendo home consoles have declined with the exception of Wii but we're talking about the entire Nintendo ecosystem so there is literally just one point of decline.
PS3 is considered by some to be a failure because of its decline compared to PS2 and the fact it lost Sony a ton of money, selling 85 million in and of itself is not a failure.
That 70 million was just an example of how Nintendo themselves still gets a lot of benefits even if their overall market does still show some decline from 3DS/Wii U to NX, those benefits increase if Nintendo is able to make NX more appealing than 3DS/Wii U which is possible.
When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.
