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

[mjk45]

Wyrdness said:

mjk45 said:

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. 

I'm just highlighting why the pessimism was overly dramatic and that it's not really a case of hindsight because much of it ignored factors which is very much summed up in Rol's Open Your Eye's thread back then, as shown the portable market alone which became a monopoly again had two platforms which amounted to over 80m units in sales these would need to go somewhere for their dedicated portable gaming fix and with the WiiU with 13m put the total consumer base at over 90m, this made the chances of a decline very small even with overlap in sales.

And I'm just highlighting that the pessimism was there and like you said that 80 million had to go somewhere but at that time we had seen it shrink from around 220million to that 80 million figure so whether or not the Switch would stabilise that trend was up in the air.