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Bofferbrauer on 07 January 2016
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RolStoppable said:
Bofferbrauer said:

Who would have thought this outcome would happen after Zelda got delayed and no price cut for the year? 218 units... now that's what I call a close shave. I hope no adjustments will spoil that result.

Any predictions about how next year will turn out? I believe 2016 will be up again (and NX not releasing until at least 2017), and due to increased baseline, much less floaty Japan sales and some nice games incoming during spring (we don't have any infos about what's coming after that as Nintendo got tired of "Please understand" delays, so they only announce them when they are almost done anymore) it will do better than the previous years until June at the very least.

First off, I predict that 2015 will be below 2014 once proper adjustments have been made after Nintendo's financial report.

Secondly, 2016 will be worse than 2015 because the Wii U will be on its last legs. NX will launch in the holidays 2016, making the year a whole lot worse than 2015 for the Wii U. The reason why we don't know more about upcoming Wii U games is not that Nintendo has switched to waiting until close to completion before announcing them, but rather that the pipeline is almost dry at this point in time. The games we do know about aren't going to generate much interest in the hardware, so there will hardly be any month where the Wii U will be up year over year. The console will slide into its grave in 2016. We'll use our amiibos to hammer the final nails into the coffin and turn our attention to NX.

I don't think Nintendo will release the NX already this year. Nintendo always showed their next console (well, mostly a mockup thereof, but still) around 1 year and a half in advance, be it Wii U, Wii or Gamecube. This hasn't happened yet. Also, Nintendo just said they won't rush the system out, so I really wonder why sobmany are still hellbent on a 2016 release.

@bolded: Oh, so you know what else is coming this year which hasn't been announced yet?