How many NX's does Nintendo need to sell for it to be considered a success?

[Soundwave]

maxleresistant said:

Soundwave said:

25 is probably too close to the GameCube which Nintendo has basically admitted was a failure.

But 30 would in line with the N64, which is a clear notch better.

The N64 wasn't really a success either. It did really well in the USA, but it was a failure in europe and japan.

I still think 30 millions wouldn't cut it. We're not talking about an "ok results", we're talking about "success".  

Here are the home consoles from Nintendo that are considered success:

-Wii 100 million

-NES 60 millions

-Snes 50 millions

 

You can't go lower than 40 millions lifetime.

40 million (if you're talking one model, that being a home console) is probably asking for a lot, to get there Nintendo probably needs a couple of new breakout hit IP. N64 basically sold the same as the SNES in North America and Europe, it's Japan that basically accounted for the difference and that was strictly on the dumb decision to not inlcude CD-ROM as some part of the N64. If they had CD it would have outsold the SNES, probably easily because it would've had JRPGs and many other types of Japanese games the Super Famicom had.