Nintendo Profit and Sales Data Blowout! Charts and loads of info!

[Mazzy]

zorg1000 said:

Mazzy said:

Not doomed but their sales have all been trending down since the NES, with the only exception being the Wii/DS. If NX flops (which it almost certainly will), Nintendo will be forced to go third party (which is good for the consumer. 

Not true, look at the annual shipments, net sales & operating income charts in the OP, from FY1990-FY2005 all 3 of those were pretty stable with just a few low years, thats nearly 15 years of stable shipments, sales & income.

After that they had an era of huge growth (DS/Wii era) followed by a huge decline to lower than their stable period.

So you are completely wrong when you say that Nintendo has been in constant decline since the NES.

3DS is at record low handheld numbers, Wii U is record low console numbers, and they have burned bridges with nearly every third party out there. Honestly if Wii never took off, Nintendo would probably already be third party. A publicly traded company can not just keep pushing out failures gen after gen with rapidly decreasing numbers each gen as their core fanbase shrinks.