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Mazzy on 19 June 2016
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zorg1000 said:
Mazzy said:

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.

Absolutely none of that is relevant to what you or I previously said.

 

You: Nintendo has been in constant decline since the NES.

Me: From FY1990-2005, Nintendo had relatively stable hardware shipments, net sales & operating income.

Do you understand my last post now? I was correcting a false statement that you made.

Clearly it won't just be YoY declines every year due to the way console cycles work, but they have been hurting for quite a while, even with N64 and GCN, and if Wii hadn't been the massive success it was, it would be a very, very different situation for Nintendo. Nintendo has been relying on mobile, toy dolls, theme parks, restaurants, TV shows, etc. to keep profit up because at this point because their console sales are in the gutter, and their handheld sales are down a huge amount from previous gen (and handheld gaming in general is dying rapidly). Also important is mindshare and marketshare and Nintendo continues to shrink there as well.