| Rustynail said: Lol, Gamestop. I don't buy this rumor at all. We don't even know anything about the NX and they're not presenting it at E3. Nintendo are following a pattern where they sell stationary consoles at a decline every gen. The NX is likely going to cater to a very narrow install base. It probably won't be a stationary console, but a hybrid console that has about the same power as the PS Vita. I would be surprised if it had similar hardware specs and architecture as the Xbox One and PS4, so it will probably get very little third party support outside of Japan unless it becomes a success, but if you think back of the N64, Gamecube and Wii U, then it's not that much likely that the NX will get third party support or be a success, because the N64, Gamecube and Wii U all stood out from their competitors in terms of hardware and Nintendo did nothing once the third party support was gone.
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Looking at past trends is always the least accurate way to make a forecast.
Also, you're looking only at half of the picture ;)
Nintendo's userbase didn't decline form NES to GC but they migrated form home consoles to handhelds. They showed an overall increase just in the WiiDS era end an overall decrese in the WiiU3DS era. Next-gen may very well be still unpredictable.
