How doomed is Nintendo?

[A Black Falcon]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php...count=1325

"Totally dead" is a definite exaggeration, but "doing poorly" isn't. And remmeber that the industry has grown a lot since then, so that makes these results even worse...

Though on that point, it looks like it's very, very likely that the industry is going to shrink, isn't it. I mean, sure the XO and PS4 are off to a strong start, and the Wii U is selling something but I'm skeptical about whether they can sell enough to not only beat the PS3/X360 sales (which added up to a lot!) but also somehow get back or replace those hundred million Wii sales which mostly seem to have vanished to cellphones and what have you... and on handhelds the situation is even worse, with the 3DS doing only alright (it will never, ever match the DS) and the Vita a total failure. Of course, for handhelds cellphones and tablets have taken a lot of that market, and those are devices which can play games, but it's not quite the same thing... it'd be sad to see this as the first generation where dedicated console and handheld sales total decline. Yes, the industry's been all up, for 40 years now, comparing each generation to the next... but it'll be very hard for that to continue another generation, I think. You'd need something over 240 million or so on the console side to beat the 7th gen total, and the handheld side is hopeless.