Is NX even necessary?

[zorg1000]

curl-6 said:

zorg1000 said:

Now ur changing your argument because the facts don't back you up.

You: handhelds are doing bad everywhere but Japan

Me: lifetime sales are similar in each region

You: I'm not talking about lifetime, im talking about current

Me: all 3 regions have done a similar amount in the current fiscal year

You: ya but Japan is smaller

Nintendo divides their sales into 3 regions and all 3 regions share very numbers. Do you think Nintendo cares what the population of a region is or do they just care about how many units they sell?

Sony doesnt "know what's up" if they did than Vita would have never released in the first place, if Vita was selling well than you can bet ur ass that they would release a successor. Nintendo will continue to make handhelds because their current handheld has sold 60 million and growing with 300 million units of software.

My argument has never changed. Selling 2 million in one country is decent. Selling a similar amount, less actually, across the entirety of Europe, mainland Asia, and Oceania, in other words over dozens of countries, is not.

In the current weekly chart, 3DS sold just 6k more than the Wii U in North America. And if you want to talk lifetime, 3DS will not only be Nintendo's worst selling handheld besides the Virtual Boy, but it will also sell less than the loser of last gen's portable race, PSP.

And next gen will be even worse, just watch.

Like I said earlier, you can compare 3DS sales to any other 5 year period (excluding DS-era) and it went look nearly as bad.

For example, from April 1998-March 2003, Nintendo shipped a total of roughly 87 million units of hardware. That was Pokemania at its prime, it also includes the launch of Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance & GBA SP. Ya 3DS is down compared to that but it is by some astronomical amount? Nope.