Welp the 3DS is a flop, a failure, the new Virtual Boy. Fuck it, Nintendo should just give up on the 3DS completely. Port all of its games on iOS. Cancel all of its upcoming games, just port them all to iOS. Nintendo should just give up on the Wii U too. Port all its games to Tablet. Clearly they should go 3rd Party. It is THE most logical thing. So should Sony. The Vita is a flop, the PS4 wont sell. This gen is over. Just time to wrap up our bags. Smartphones and Tablets won.

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Time to bow down to our Tablet and Smartphone overlords. It is abundantly clear, this month because it didnt sell as well as it could, that... its dead. Tablets and Smartphones completely and totally own the market, 100%.

A redesign is nedeed, or a new pillar
maybe its time to resurrect the Game boy brand. its still popularenough, and well done could be a great thing

Oh wow, neo gaf is reporting leaked npd numbers? Ok.... So npd releases numbers for the others but, the 3ds's have to be leaked by neogaf? Please....

Considering nintendo won't give out NPD numbers, we have to look for another source, and the source is from a reliable user. And believe me, if the numbers were good, nintendo would have been shouting from the rooftops.

If Nintendo never gives out the numbers, then why would they shout them from the rooftops if they never give out the numbers?..... No official numbers, so let's go with a neogaf guess? It's the next best thing?! Oh Lordy......

Aquamarine and creamsugar on Neogaf are legit.

Well, I guess that's something....

Call me distrustful, but I'll say that I have a little trouble believing one Neogaffer's posts when it comes to sales, regardless of how good of a track record they have.

Wii U only selling 50K in a month is beyond silly. That would mean it's legitimately selling less on average per week than it did during the summer of last year, when it had literally no games whatsoever until Pikmin 3. Nintendo's own numbers for the year were 3.2 million, I believe, so at the very least, those aren't in dispute.

And while VGC is certainly not the most reliable of sales predictors, overtracking them by five times the amount is simply ridiculous. And along with that...consoles don't go from having historically high months to selling 12.5K per week in the span of a 30 day time frame.

Are people seriously still arguing whether or not the mobile/tablet market is devouring dedicated handhelds? The fact that the Vita/3DS combo is struggling to meet 50-55% of the DS' numbers in the same time frame and where the DS actually had a viable competitor should be ample proof of this.
The dedicated handheld is going away, and like I said in 2011; the 3DS is the last of its kind.

I really don't care if you believe me or not. These numbers are solid and there's a reason why we trust them so much.