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tak13 said:
binary solo said:
NX confirmed for launch in March means low holiday sales for 3DS unless there are major discounts to clear out stock. I doubt that in the final 6 months of a console's life as the current gen console it sells 10 million units.

Because Nintendo will soon after NX release, stop selling 3ds...

 

Oh my god...

 

10m in the current and rest three years not six months! Hello, we're not talking for  a Nintendo home console...

OK it needs to sell 9.75 million in the next 6 months, because it will sell bugger all after NX comes out.



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binary solo said:
tak13 said:

Because Nintendo will soon after NX release, stop selling 3ds...

 

Oh my god...

 

10m in the current and rest three years not six months! Hello, we're not talking for  a Nintendo home console...

OK it needs to sell 9.75 million in the next 6 months, because it will sell bugger all after NX comes out.

Based on what?  -.-  Why you instist on shitty  or almost no 3ds sales after NX release? You're outright certain that it  won't sell 70m while  chances  about it are not low! That's dogmatism!

Did you read my comment? You didn't... Not blaming you, it's a wall of text!

Here's a related part!  ( With love )

For history, sales of Nintendo handheld consoles after their successor coming out. ( ROUNDED NUMBERS )

GBC->GBA 5M FY02 4.7M FY01 0.3M
( GBC, A GB REVISION BUT WITH ITS OWN BRAND NEW HUGE GAME LIBRARY, RELEASED 1998 AFTER 9 YEARS OF GB )

GBA-> DSL 6.42M FY07 4.4M FY08 1.6M FY09 0.42M
( NOT FAT DS, BECAUSE IT WASN'T A HOT THING THAT DSL BECAME AND DIDN'T INFLUENCED GBA SALES MUCH IN THE WEST, IT WAS RELEASED IN THE THIRD FY OF GBA )

DS->3DS 7.6M FY12 5.1M FY13 2.35M FY14 0.13 FY15 0.02M FY16 0.01M
( FROM FY 2012 BECAUSE 3DS IN FY11 WASN'T DOING WELL TO HAVE ANY SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON DS SALES )

Keep in mind that all of the above successors  had BC which made their predecessors obsolete and useless, NX doesn't seem that it will have BC with 3ds!

 

Are  these data makes you to reconsider?

 

Nintendo abandoned wii u to focus on 3ds...

What about Pokemon go, Pokemon sun and moon and New 3ds xl/2ds bundles? What about the 80$  costing 2ds  ( since may ) with MK7 which just had a color sheme swap in NA and recently  was released in Japan where it  perfoms well?  What about all the new games that were showed in the september direct ( like Super mario maker, which releases in December ) ? What about super mario run possibly repeating the wonders of pokemon go ? I know in spite of these, it could not do well due to NX being  close, but all these makes me to anticipate a  relatively great last holidays sales!

New 3ds xl hasn't received any price drop yet, it's rumored that it's going to have one big this fall...

By the way, what's your prediciton?

Personally, I'm foreseeing 70m! i think that the contigency to fall short of 70m isn't small though, howbeit not for a big margin, ergo 69m.



Not even close IMO



http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=219582&page=1#



tripenfall said:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=219582&page=1#

People actually said no to that? o.O



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tripenfall said:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=219582&page=1#

I mean no disrespect, but is that even worth considering?



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1