Captain_Yuri said:
Evening out in sales? How big of a drop does it have to be in order to even out? It was going down in 2014, it went down in 2015, its still going down in 2016... I am sure you have seen plenty of ipads and even my sister has an ipad. But an ipad 2 and she doesn't care about upgrading. The issue with her ipad 2 is that she can't bring it to school because she has to worry about it all the time and it is a pretty big device to carry around. She goes to highschool, not collage or something. What she does bring though is her phone. Why? Cause its easy to carry around and keep track... I have seen plenty of kids with tablets but I have seen plenty more with phones. While I agree that the kids who would buy 3ds aren't buying 3ds. Considering the sales numbers, they aren't buying tablets either. Again, looking at overall sales is just silly because the % of each company is just so small apart from the big two. 10 million ipads down YoY with no indication of stopping doesn't exactly scream something that people want and that's Apple's device. And you also have 10% total sales down as well.. The nintendo fans will buy a Nintendo device no matter what but the casuals/kids are the issue. So less and less people buying tablets clearly means the market is losing interest. So if Nintendo's research as led them to this, I hope they are looking at the sales and are thinking, maybe we should have a smaller and cheaper device as well. |
I think they've tried everything with the 3DS ... small ... big ... even non 3D 3DS (lol) ... expensive ... mid-priced ... dirt cheap.
The world has changed into a smart device world ... I think Nintendo making a "smart Nintendo" platform that maybe can run Android apps (which Nintendo can then make money off of rather than Apple or Google getting all that money) in this environment makes as much sense as anything.
I'm not saying this will work ... it could easily fail. So could doing the same thing as they have been the last 5-6 years. For Nintendo there's no easy answers.
That kinda happens when you make a string of stupid decisions on your console side for 20 years straight too. Aside from the Wiimote gamble, which paid off huge for a few years (mind you this is also an idea that Nintendo didn't invent, they bought the concept from an American guy who tried to sell it to Sony/MS first, and even then many Nintendo execs were against buying the tech, lol), the haven't been able to make a console without several huge errors since the Super NES.
So, the one time in 20 years the portable division could use some help from the console side, and the console side is home, drunk, passed out and having pissed its pants.
Kids ARE getting tablets as their first gaming device. That is a problem for Nintendo, the days of "Oh Little Johnny is turning 7 this year, we need to buy him his first Game Boy/DS/3DS" ... that is just a faded memory now. These kids take to smart devices like fish to water, it's their first introduction to gaming, and that's a huge, huge problem for Nintendo.
Like I said, look the next time you are in an airport. Seeing like 50 kids on a tablet, sometimes 2-3 tablets in one family alone, and zero on 3DS or Vita sends the reality of the situation home real freaking fast.
