Doesn't matter that it's only a blog. If Forbes puts their name on it then it tacitly endorses the content. There isn't even a disclaimer at the bottom of the post. This sort of amateur hour industry analysis diminishes the Forbes brand.

Each console has to be put into it's proper context. Wii U is doing terribly, and as Nintendo handhelds go 3DS is underperforming. Nintendo can, and probably should, push through this bad patch in the hardware game. But they should learn a lesson here and their next home console should do much more than merely cater to the 20 million or so strong core Nintendo fanbase. Nintendo actually has to grab some of that market to which only POS and XB seem to be appealing right now if it wants long term and multi-generational sustainability. it doesn't take long to burn through $8 billion .

But Nintendo may be running out of time, the writing is on the wall for gaming consoles. The age of the streaming device is fast approaching. Onlive was proof of concept, and it worked pretty well. PS Now is one of the big boys getting into it with a good chance of success. And Valve will be there too. Before long everyone is going to make a cheap box that can stream gaming content. Nintendo, will simply be another game developer, as will Sony, though no doubt Sony would still make streaming hardware as they already do.

NPD.

Admittedly, the Forbes staff have been in Nintendo's corner. Their gaming editor is a huge Wii U fan.

Without Halo CE/Halo 2 on the original Xbox the Xbox would have sold way less.  You look way to simple to it, having a few Indie hits on Xbla increased people buying the system, increased the number of devs making a game on Xbla and porting their game over and that again increased the numbers of people buying the system and devs making games for XBLA...

If Titanfall is succesfull in sales and attracting some customers it will affect the sales for years;..

How so? Xb 1 is already selling in all the markets that make up the vast majority of a console's sales. On a long term basis adding another 30 countries will probably lift Xb one weekly sales by about 10-15% above what they are currently. And TF will only have a short term effect. If you'd said after a $100 price cut the claim might be more credible. At least this guy is using actual sales data (albeit estimates with a sizeable MoE) not conjecture about what things will be like in a week's time and beyond.

Besides even if the numbers you're suggesting for 3DS are true, 25+25+30 > 57. So it is still the case right now.

That's not a disclaimer, at least not in any sense that dissociates the Forbes brand from what this guy is writing. In fact it actually associates the Forbes brand with what this guy is writing, by saying "The author is a Forbes contributor".

A proper disclaimer would be "the author is not a Forbes contributor, he merely rents space on this blog site and he is in no way associated with the Forbes company or any of its publications."

If New Scientist hosted a blog site and allowed a creationist to write a creationist blog, that would be New Scientist associating itself with creationist propaganda, regardless of the fact that none of that stuff would ever get published as articles in the New Scientist magazine.

Japan will drop more (unless they intervene) I can't quite believe how much it has dropped already.

XB1 can easily sustain 80k+ a week after Titanfall + more markets.

The guy can write what he wants but people should really stop to open a new "Forbes says" thread every few days when they mean a blogger posting something on Forbes. There are probably many other sites who allow some bloggers to write something and nobody here uses these posts to say that the site claims it.

But to talk about the article, it's almost as sarcastic (I hope that isn't a serious article) as saying that Mercedes is selling more vehicles as Ducati.

It's kind of strange.. that a 1 year old "dommed and dead" console almost sells the same as a brand new.. "mayby not the leader, but still pretty decent" console..

It dosent make sense..

Hey, look! Someone on the Internet doing what they should be doing when referencing VGC numbers.

Im more impressed that they actually explained VGC estimates.