Einsam_Delphin said:
| Faelco said:
The tendencies are pretty easy : the Wii U sold 85% less than the Wii, the 3DS sold 60% less than the DS so the Nintendo consoles sales shrinked by 70%, and the handheld market shrinked by 70% too. The mix of all these numbers are the tendencies I'm talking about, and they're not good.
Why do tendencies matter more than sales numbers? For an easy example, do you believe more in the future of a 10 millions products market growing by more than 100% every year, or a 100 millions products market losing 50% sales every year? What would be your decision as an industry leader in this situation? Ideally, when a market is shrinking and another one is growing, you slowly retire from the shrinking one, even if it's still bigger right now, and you invest on the growing one (obviously if you think these tendencies will stay this way, and the real situation is a lot more complex than this). That's kind of what Nintendo is doing with their mobile presence (Miitomo, Pokemon Go) on one side and the NX on the other. I let you guess which one is the growing one and which one is the shrinking one...
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Ah, so irrelevant numbers then, unless you really believe the Wii n DS sold purely on traditional Nintendo games and nothing else like the Wii U n 3DS have. Yes the Wii/DS still had Nintendo games, but that wasn't the sole contributor to their sales. The hardware itself was a big reason with successful at the time gimmicks in touch screen and motion controls, as well as non-tradditional games like Nintendogs, Brain Training and the Wii series. That's why 8th gen (and gens prior to 7th) is truely telling of how much hardware Nintendo games can move while 7th gen is not at all.
I see, but as long as they can sell enough dedicated gaming hardware as they have been then there's no need to retire.
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Don't worry, I'm not saying they should retire. But Nintendo in a few years could be a lot more focused on the mobile market than console, and the NX could be the first console on this path. So the NX could get even smaller numbers than the current gen and it's already being anticipated.
