Nintendo quarterly sales update (To September 30th 2022) Switch 114.33 million

[mjk45]

Wyrdness said:

mjk45 said:

The state of Nintendo at that time was one of decline, and that did have an impact on people perceptions like you mentioned not everyone but a lot regarding whether the move toward a hybrid model could halt that decline.

The audience for a dedicated Nintendo experience was in decline the 3Ds wasn't anywhere near the power house of the DS and as for the Wii U enough said.

mobile was growing not just in sales but importantly its technological capabilities and that saw Nintendo bringing more of its Nintendo experiences into that space those factors were exactly why we had the conversation at that time around whether or not the switch could stem the tide now it turned out that it did but that was still unknown back then.

Mobile was already huge long before the 3DS and it was clear it would never replace dedicated gaming and just exist along side it, in order for a decline to happen you'd literally have to be thinking that the entire portable market would disappear which is not fully logical the 3DS not being the powerhouse that the DS was is no different to the PS3 not being like the PS2. Fact is the monopoly on portable alone made it impossible to decline.

When somethings in decline it doesn't mean its necessarily going to disappear it may rebound or level off  and the numbers show there was a definite decline and that decline lead Nintendo into the red something that hadn't happened before, no one was saying that Nintendo dedicated gaming was doomed or that mobile was going to kill it off just that all those aforementioned things were part of why there was more uncertainty at that time and that uncertainty was what me and Curl were talking about not doom. 

Last edited by mjk45 - on 01 December 2022