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

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teigaga said:

Where are you deriving your definition of success? Is this from Nintendo's own mouth?

Likely success is completely respective to what they hoped to achieve. It is well known the gamecube was a bigger money maker than the 360 and PS3. It could only be a failure in terms of what Nintendo had hoped to achieve. Same with N64.

They sold 100 millions Wii, and 150 millions NDS, That's 250 millions consoles sold in the span of 5/6 years.

Do you really think Nintendo is content with selling 72 millions units at this point in the gen? Do you think they would be happy and think it's a success if they sold 30 millions home console and 70 million handhelds?

They always made a lot of money, they always aimed for more, they are not aiming at the gamecube numbers, they are aiming at a lot more than that. Also the cost of making games has been increased tenfold since the Gamecube. You can't make as much profit with the same sales.

30 millions would put the NX behind the Wii, NES, SNES and N64. How can anyone here thinks that Nintendo will be happy with the NX being their 5th best selling console? 

I'm dead sure on that, if it doesn't do better than  the N64, they'll categorize it as a mild failure. Hell, I bet they would even think 40 millions is not a success.

For me 40 millions means : a good third party support, a great first party support, great sales of software, and good profits. That xould be a success