Mazzy said:
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. |
Has been relying on where? Most of the things you mentioned haven't even started ( not even mobile, since miitomo doesn't count, it's a weird social game, wait for the real games, from major Nintendo ips ) ! Nintendo is still profiting by 90% on its traditional buisness...
Do you have a problem that Nintendo is finally doing the right move of being diversified?
Anyway!
So by your logic, ps3 is a commercial failure and playstation was dying since its predecessor sold 155m+? No it's not, it just fell back to the normal! Let me surprise you, Wii isn't the first console with casual gamers/ non previously gamers...
And who cares for the unfair 3ds vs ds comparison? Only people who want to draw a negative picture for Nintendo's handheld consoles buisness or to support their irrational notion, of handhelds consoles or rather Nintendo's handhelds consoles ( since Nintendo's only the true representative of handheld gaming ) being dead ( Selling 70m+ and being the second best selling gaming device of the gen, is far from dead) !
Furthemore,, the only handheld console before ds, was gba ,which sold 81.5m, its succcessor sold almost double of its predecessor sales, having a rival that sold about the same with it s rival's predecessor, what happend suddenly and the market grow so extremely? These seem to be regular for you?
As they grew, thus they dwindled! However, that's not death level, more like normalization level! Maybe Nintendo's next handheld consoles sales could refute that for bad or even for good.
Αt the end If handheld gaming is dying, you and all others who exaggerate with this topic, let it to be proved with Nintendo's next handheld console, if it sells fairly under 3ds... Conclusions by now are premature and msiguided when the metric of them is the ds vs 3ds comparison!
The real problem is in the USA where 3ds is a lot down compared to gba but still having quite high sales.
P.s Friendly advice, be careful with what you read on the internet! DOOOOOOOOM!
