Global Weekly, 29th April 2017 - Hardware

[Insidb]

RolStoppable said:

Insidb said:

I agree; my assumption was that they were selling at a comparable profit: Nintendo has been pretty good about achieving that.

Wii numbers are the actual target? That's aiming insanely high, because I don't think the market has nearly the footprint it once did. With the prevalence of tablets, smartphones, etc., it seems wise to expect contraction.

It's not a high target. During the Wii generation, Nintendo sold ~250m consoles. Selling more than Wii and the market not being the same as it was a good ten years ago aren't at odds with each other.

I see what you're saying now and I still think it's quite lofty. The apparent dissipation of the handheld market is one of the most alarming things I've seen from gen-to-gen, but the aforementioned devices seem to have claimed those victims. From DS to 3DS, the falloff is around 50%, while PSP went from substantial to dead. Aside from the ~65% handheld market shrinkage, the home market sits around 64% with a diminishing X1 and WiiU: the ground to cover this gen is dishearteningly significant.