List of 8th gen, million selling Nintendo IP

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mountaindewslave said:

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As far as their "becoming less relevant" I think that's more a matter of audience reach rather than sales.

Yes, their games still sell well, but they sell well mostly to their established fanbase. Outside of this fanbase however, they have become less relevant to the gaming mainstream.

they've become so less 'relevant' to the mainstream that their handheld is the ONLY one that has survived this generation with 60 million sales (the competition being at like 1/5 that).

literally JUST last generation they were dominant in the home console market. Amiibos selling out everywhere to all kinds of people shows that Nintendo is as relevant as ever, its just the simple fact that the Wii U was marketed terribly and has a giant controller/screen thing that most gamers can't identify with

if Nintendo had released the Wii U with a traditional controller and not named it the Wii U (it had nothing to do with the Wii so the name is absurd) then it would have easily sold 2 or 3x as well as it has

this is coming from a giant Nintendo fan. I don't like the Wii U because of the gamepad and there are a large amount of gamers who feel the same way. it was a very easy thing to fix but Nintendo obviously did what they did

3DS + Wii U and Nintendo is competitive with even Sony in terms of video game hardware sold. the only reason Nintendo did so poorly this generation with the home console is conceptually was a terrible idea

It's not just Wii U; 3DS will be their lowest selling portable (unless we count the Virtual Boy) and will sell about half what the DS did.

The N64 was concurrent with the Gameboy, though so was the SNES. If we add Gameboy's sales to either console we land at around 152 - 170 million units. Wii U + 3DS meanwhile will top out at about half that.

Nintendo's sales now are not "similar to the N64" generation, they are the lowest they have ever been since they joined the market in the mid 80s.