Nice work. Seems like 3DS + Wii U will struggle to reach 90mil combined, & slim chance to reach 100. This likely marks the lowest point in Ninty's history.

3DS+Wii U will likely be in the 25-30 million range in each of the 3 major regions, so on par with previous generations in Japan+Others. The entire decline from pre-Wii/DS generations will come solely from Americas.

That's Nintendo's biggest hurdle, is finding a way to appeal to American kids and families again.

Haha wow, u summed my 6 posts up in one little graph

One thing I find really interesting is that despite Nintendo home consoles consistantly declining, the total hardware & software sales remained roughly the same.

That's a big reason I feel Nintendo should unify their handhelds and consoles.

Hope that Nintendo will comeback in the US.

The Nintendo 64 sales was epic... and even GameCube was selling great, expecially in 2003.

Yes, actually it feels like Nintendo install base didn't get smaller from their 1st to 4th gen, it's more like they shifted preference from home consoles to handleds. The only true decline is the one we see today (sadly).

I agree they should unify architecture, unifying consoles... I'm not sure. Keep in mind many Nintendo home consoles owners are also Nintendo handleds owners. If you unify everything on one console and this console happens not to be attractive enough to draw new users, you might just lose sales.

edit: A possible solution could be to have 60% of their output multiplatform -the same game works for both handled and home console- (Most mario games, 2D games, smash bros, etc.), 20% handled exclusive (pokemon), 20% home console exclusive (3D zelda, 3D metroid), something like that.

I don't really think marketshare is all that important in that sense. If ur Nintendo and can sell 100 million units of hardware, 500 million units of software and make a few billion dollars each generation then the success/failure of other companies doesn't really mean much.

I get that their is a risk in losing hardware sales but I don't it's necessarily a given.

Take Apple products for example, u might say why would anyone buy an iPod/iPad if they have an iPhone? Well millions of people each year are cross buying those devices so there is the chance people could do the same for Nintendo handhelds and consoles dispose sharing the same library.

Someone may buy the handheld and play the more handheld centric titles like Animal Crossing or Pokemon then buy the console variant to play the big, epic console experiences on their big HDTV like Zelda or Xenoblade.