Is NX even necessary?

[curl-6]

zorg1000 said:

curl-6 said:

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.

Lol have u looked at their shipments this fiscal year?

Japan-2.01 million, Americas-1.98 million, Others-1.88 million

All three regions are doing similar numbers.

Why does Redbox losing to Netflix matter? Millions of people use it and its profitable which is what matters and is exactly my point. Redbox doesnt need to beat Netflix/Hulu just like handhelds don't need to beat smartphones/tablets, they simply need to coexist.

Japan is just one country, the fact it's selling more than a whole continent or the rest of the world says a lot.

Dedicated portables will continue to dwindle in sales next generation, count on it. Sony know what's up, they see there's no long term future in it. There won't be another Sony portable, and the next Nintendo portable will continue the 3DS's decline.