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Soundwave said:

I think they already know they're not hitting 20 mill. That was likely largely a target based around Labo become a hit sales driver that would've built through the summer and blown up as a must have holiday gift for kids with tons of social media buzz, but it's nowhere close to that.

But there's no point in revising down now. They'll wait until Q3 (Christmas quarter) is over and revise the forecast down in January to something more realistic.

Anything above 17.5 mill is not bad, the PS4 did 17.7 its second full fiscal year so you can't exactly be mad with say "only 18.3" or something.

It depends on who "you" is.  These forecasts are made for the benefit of investors. They're essentially legally required, and certainly ethically required to do as good a job as possible with these things. Nintendo notoriously sucks at forecasting Hardware Sales. But, that doesn't mean it's okay for them to keep missing. So, certainly some people can be mad if they sell 18.3 million.