Weekly hardware sales are not the metric for success for a four-year-old console that is already one of the best-selling ever in the region. Software sales are. That is where the money comes from.

The DLC is not being developed by like 50 people, it's likely a small handful and it's likely been finished for a while too, they're just spacing out the DLC to make sure the game keeps selling over time. 

MK9 is well in development for NX IMO. 

So is the next 3D Mario. Well into development, right now. As I type this. 

Wanna bet against that?

I think Animal Crossing is a fairly good bet too. That's the type of game Wii U would've gotten had it sold quite well, but when you sell like that, considerations have to be made. 

AC on Wii U would be poor asset management on Nintendo's part. It's not going to "save" the Wii U or change the system's final LTD, but it would incredibly valuable for Nintendo's next handheld launch (which IMO is unified platform, so when the handheld launches, the next generation in effect launches for Nintendo) and sell more copies in the long run too. 

And once again I'm done. You have your agenda and I have my reasoning. End of the story is I will wait and see and if things go in line with you I will be very disappointed in nintendo, if the NX is a handheld I shall be laughing all the way to gamestop where I shall buy one.

NX is probably both. It's not just one thing. 

Nintendo can't be expected to support two distinct hardware platforms, not even Sony is able to do it even with third party support. 

It's just an outdated concept, yes, you could do that ... when you could make console games like Mario 64 with 30-40 people and handheld games with like 5-10 people. 

You can't do that anymore, Nintendo is absolutely cracking under the pressure to have to support the Wii U and 3DS. So bump 3DS to PS3-level graphics/design scope. Now bump your console presumably to match the PS4? Or would it be PS5? In any case ... there's no way Nintendo can juggle two platforms like that, it's an unreasonable expectation. 

The company that can't even get a Zelda game released in HD in under 5 years is suddenly by 2017/18 going to magically be able to get a steady flow of games for two distinct hardware platform with the baseline platform (portable) being comparable to the PS3/360 in spec? Pigs might fly too, but I doubt it. 

You seriously don't understand what I just posted right? STOP TRYING TO PUSH YOUR AGENDA ON ME! You want a fusion and you are trying to push that on us, you are like a broken record syaing the same thing a millions times a day regardless to how many people come up with flawless logic/better logic than you do and put make your idea look bad you continue going and going and going. So kindly stop replying to me. I didn't quote you the last time cause I was done and i'm still done. stop! just stop! A lot of people are quite fe dup of these threads and that is why I went off not too long ago on your very much "What I want" against "What has been hinted at/ is actually obvious" not too long ago. So thank you and good night. I am done!

It's not what I personally want. 

If you don't want to have a discussion about it, lol no one is putting a gun to your head forcing you into this thread. 

Chill out. I'm guessing you're not 9 years old and have to beg your parents for a game console too so I don't why you are so hellbent against the idea of new hardware anyway, a new system every 4-5 years is not going to cause the world to end. 

The hysteria about that is just ridiculously overblown. 

Lol On the bright side. Congratz on 10000 post

NES+G&W is 32.22

SNES/N64/GB are 55.18m, so a 27.59m average.

GC+GBA only 21m, but of course the GBA had a very short life and again, doing as well as the Gamecube isn't something to strive for.  As Iwata said "we shouldn't continue this business if our only target is to outsell GameCube."

3DS+Wii U is currently also at 21m.  It can probably make it to 25m eventually, but there is another factor not gone into.  That factor is that the console portion has continued to decrease.  Those 17.17 million SNESs accounted for 194.85m software units sold.  The 18.7m 3DS hasn't managed half of that.  The tie ratio is also lower than the DS at the same point in its life, but it has improved on the GBA.  Granted, just selling more console hardware in the current environment isn't the only answer.  Nintendo's home console tie ratios have dropped hard since the days of the NES/SNES.  They would need more than a Wii scenario, they'd need the kind of widespread software support that their pre N64 consoles had.

OMG. Coould you stop now whith the Nintendooms threads? Jesus.

In terms of hardware they are fine, 25 million per generation in Japan is strong and the average when excluding DS/Wii era. As for consoles, I strongly believe that Nintendo is going to fully unify their devices by having their handheld and consoles share a library, it just comes down to individual preferences on form factor, that alone helps reduce R&D costs of hardware by not having to make 2 completely seperate devices and it's helps with software because no longer is there an install base issue, games on Wii U simply can't sell high numbers because they are stuck on a console with 3 million or so lifetime sales, that is fixed when every game is available to the 20-25 million install base of both devices.

Also do those 3DS software sales include eShop exclusives and Virtual Console titles or is it just shipments+digital sales of retail titles?