| Soundwave said:
Nintendo's hardware division has been incompetent for the last 8-9 years at least. The way the Wii fizzled out, the handling of the Wii U, the launch of the 3DS and the general lack of forsight as smart device apps cut their portable business into almost 1/3 are all largely due to awful management. They make terrific games ... their management has made some really, really stupid decisions though. They would not be where they are now if that wasn't the case. You don't go from 100 million consoles sold to barely even being able to get to 14 million within a span of a few years without something being horribly wrong. |
We get it the casual market left to smartphones. You pull their best numbers for a portable (DS) and home console system (Wii) and say this down cycle is so bad. Is it bad? Sure... Are things going wrong for them this gen? Sure but if you take their averages (portables usually sell around 100m on average probably) and 3DS will probably end around 70m. That isn't that far off. I'm sure the average for home consoles is around 30-40m so being about half that is pretty damn bad but not as bad as when compared to Wii alone.
I'm not to trying to paint a rosy picture here but I think your being a little too gloomy. Who knows NX could pull some casuals back or perhaps even convince other systems owners to finally buy Nintendo again. We don't even know what the damn thing is yet.
