Is NX even necessary?

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zorg1000 said:

curl-6 said:

Japan is the only market where portables are still selling decent numbers. Outside glorious Nippon, even 3DS is barely selling any better than the dying Wii U, and Vita is a lost cause.

The core audience for portables is children, and nowadays they just game on Mum and Dad's tablet/smartphone. As for adults, in an era where everybody carries around a device capable of playing games 24/7, people are increasingly unwilling to spend hundreds of dollars on a separate device just to play certain games. Mobile gaming has ripped the heart out of the portable industry. They're destined to go the way of PDAs and movie rental stores.

Japan-21 million hardware, 102 million software

Americas-19.5 million hardware, 87 million software

Other-17.5 million hardware, 75 million software

Sales really aren't that different between region. I'm pretty sure millions of people still rent movies via Redbox, the market didn't die, it adapted which is what Nintendo needs to do. Nintendo doesnt need to beat smartphones/tablets, they simply need to find a way to coexist.

Kids/casuals want whatever is considered the new, cool, hip item and if Nintendo can release a device that is seen as cool than it will attract these consumers. Easier said that done but not impossible.

I'm not talking about lifetime sales. I am talking about how it's selling now. Look at the weekly charts, portable numbers outside Japan are woeful. The rest of the world has moved on from dedicated portables.

As for Redbox, it recently had to shut down operations in Canada due to low demand, and is getting dwarfed by Netflix and the like.