yours doesn't make any sense to be honest, some companies have best selling products and then they sell less, if that was the case then a lot of corporations and companies would be dead. If they're making a profit doesn't matter how much they sell. And your prediction and opinion about the switch are just that, not "facts" overall a terrible thread with bad arguments of why a very healthy company with no debts and owner of the majority of it shares should give up their core business model to please your uneducated point of view.

You do know that PS4/Xbox sales all come from third party just a little from Hardware

I am deadset Nintendo to not expand there base is because.

1 Competition:Everything relies on competition,no competition no industry to expand.

2 Broken/Expensive games:Without the first reason there would be no incentive to make amazing games and try new things because there would be no "first reason"

3: Jobs/Sectors that will be lost:Nintendo will have to fire of shit ton of people and close a lot of studios which would be terrible.

Nintendo has there own Software,hardware,accesories,amibos etc etc to make,and they have incentive to keep there software on there own hardware.

Uncharted 4 proved that exclusives are amazing if they are bundled right and  boom revenue 500 mil revenue to be precise.

Ohh yes, because they get all of the $59 a game retails for. The stores sell it at a 0% margin (they donate their employees labour and other overhead costs), the distrubutors warehouse and ship it at a 0% margin  (they also donate their employees labour and other overhead costs), the manufacturer of the phyical game itself does so at a 0% margin (they donate their employees labour, the materials to make the game and other overhead costs), and Nintendo themselves don't actually pay their employees to make the game, they make Mario Kart for free. Nintendo's overheard? Donated because the utility companies, the equipment manufacturers, etc all love Nintendo that much!

That $59 is going staight into Nintendo's pocket, paid for by the free labour and material of those who made that game happen, and got it out to the consumers simply out of the goodness of their hearts.

Fact: The Switch costs more than the 3DS' original price. You know...the one that Nintendo had to cut in panic and incur a loss in order to boost sales? How do you think that the Switch will get around that? 

Fact: There has been less reception from 3rd parties with the Switch than the WiiU. With 30 games released on the WiiU at launch, ony 5 Switch games are planned at launch. Lisensees have dropped too, if you look at the slide showing the 3rd party supporters for the WiiU at announcement vs 3rd party supporters for the Switch at announcement.

This is Nintendo's answer to two previous markets they've been in, and so far the results have been worse than their worst market. What's your argument to this? 

Actually, the number of shareholders that support 3rd party are growing ranks in Nintendo, and they wouldn't be requesting this out of nowhere, if everything was fine and dandy. At least one of Nintendo's markets has been propped up by the other for the majority of the past 15 years. Now that those markets have merged, what's going to happen if it fails? This isn't a smart move at all....it's in fact put Nintendo in a much more volatile position, cannibalising a market that they already had control of for the sake of leverage.

Fact: The Switch costs more than the 3DS' original price. You know...the one that Nintendo had to cut in panic and incur a loss in order to boost sales? How do you think that the Switch will get around that? 

Fact: There has been less reception from 3rd parties with the Switch than the WiiU. With 30 games released on the WiiU at launch, ony 5 Switch games are planned at launch. Lisensees have dropped too, if you look at the slide showing the 3rd party supporters for the WiiU at announcement vs 3rd party supporters for the Switch at announcement.

This is Nintendo's answer to two previous markets they've been in, and so far the results have been worse than their worst market. What's your argument to this? 

Actually, the number of shareholders that support 3rd party are growing ranks in Nintendo, and they wouldn't be requesting this out of nowhere, if everything was fine and dandy. At least one of Nintendo's markets has been propped up by the other for the majority of the past 15 years. Now that those markets have merged, what's going to happen if it fails? This isn't a smart move at all....it's in fact put Nintendo in a much more volatile position, cannibalising a market that they already had control of for the sake of leverage.

i Said revenue was 452 milion i didn't say anything about Tax and Cuts for retailers in my sentences,read what i write don't interpret it like something else but what it is.

i said over 450 was revenue not for Nintendo but grand scheme of things Nintendo got like 250 to 300 mil of that.

Shipments for the first 2 fiscal quarters this year are at 2.71 million compared to 2.28 million the year before. It needs to ship 4.08 million in the next two quarters to remain flat.

NPD leaks have said 3DS is up over 200k YoY in October+November add in December and that number could very well be 300k. According to Media Create, 3DS is down about 300k YoY in October December so USA & Japan pretty much cancel each other out. 3DS sales trends in Europe typically follow closer to USA than Japan and i believe we got confirmation that 3DS was up YoY in the UK so i would think its safe to assume Europe as a whole was up YoY during the holidays.

Based on that its likely that 3DS shipments in the last quarter were up YoY, extending the current lead it had in the first 2 quarters. Even if shipments werent as high, the 430k lead probably wasnt erased so either way its looking like 3DS shipments are equel to or greater than last years shipments in the first 3 quarters of the fiscal year.

The only way i see 3DS shipments being down YoY for the full fiscal year is if Nintendo is trying to reduce the amount of stock at retailers which is possible do to Switch releasing in March.