Is NX even necessary?

[curl-6]

zorg1000 said:

curl-6 said:

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.

I guess the only way we'll ever actually know is to wait and see. Our differences here can be fairly summarized as me being slightly more of a cynical pessimist than you. :P