- Nintendo's Scott Moffitt the executive vice president of sales and marketing talked to the Washington Post about the sales of the 3DS and the lack of signs of these sales slowing down:
"So far in 2015, sales of the family of Nintendo 3DS hardware in America are actually ahead of last year’s pace,"
- Hayley Tsukayama conducted an interview with Moffitt and she summarized some of his words:
- Nintendo 3DS is here to stay. Let me throw out a number that might surprise you. So far, on a global basis, Nintendo 3DS has sold more hardware than PS4 and Xbox One—combined. Most people find this shocking.
- on the impact of smart devices in handheld gaming, he says:
- Obviously we don’t deny the impact of smart devices on the gaming market. But it’s a mistake to consider this a zero-sum game. Clearly gaming on smart devices and gaming on Nintendo 3DS can happily coexist, to the benefit of all gamers. The fact is, playing games on two very different hardware platforms means options for two very different kinds of game play. The inclusion of multiple control buttons on Nintendo 3DS allows a much deeper and more sophisticated type of play.
Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:
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