Nintendo Lowers 2016 financial forecast

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JGarret said:

Soundwave said:

Poor hardware sales in the game business always leave you at the mercy of things like currency swings. It is what it is.

Been a nightmare of a generation for Nintendo, a tsunami and nuclear meltdown literally greeted the 3DS launch, both Mr. Yamauchi and even more sadly Mr. Iwata are gone, hardware sales are hitting all time lows which is holding back software sales, virtual near abandonment from third parties, complete collapse of their console biz etc. etc.

It really has been a staggeringly bad 5 year stretch for Nintendo. Unimaginable pretty much. 

With all that said, does it make the NX the most important/crucial launch ever for Nintendo?...Since the NES, have the stakes ever been so high?

I'm sure they were way more nervious with the launch of the Wii/DS and their huge potential of failure, but at least at that time they still had the monster that was the GBA. But yeah, they need to improve their hardware sales. If Nintendo unifies their platforms and keeps those wonderful attach rates, a 60-80m userbase on the NX, both handheld and HC, would be enough to give Nintendo the stability they need.