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

[Alby_da_Wolf]

RolStoppable said:

superchunk said:
This really depends on the definition of success. As long as its profitable, then its worth-while to do. So it then comes down to other indications of success. If it is based on consumer acceptance or market leadership, then it isn't as simple as selling X MM. It has a lot of other variables.

For instance, I look at Wii U. As a comparison to the sales of other Nintendo consoles, then it is not 'successful'. But in terms of profitability and lessons learned, it is successful.

It's about lessons being learned, huh? Well then, you are a failure. Your Nintendo fanboyism continues to mess up your brain.

On topic: More than the 3DS and Wii U combined, coupled with a few billion dollars of profit. Setting the bar for success low only makes people complacent.

Ninty itself must be more ambitious than its most complacent fans, otherwise it will fail, but if NX will be a combined device (or it will offer one amongst available SKUs), asking to outsell 3DS and Wii U combined would be excessive, not only because portables are declining, but also because all Ninty users that own both Wii U and 3DS should be, as they actually are, single potential users for NX (although very likely  single users of one of the most complete SKUs that Ninty will offer).  The intersection of current user sets isn't empty, so the number of total Ninty users is lower than the sum of the number of elements of each set.