Even more terrible sales figures for Nintendo

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At this point, Nintendo fans should just worry about buying Nintendo's games and hope they can keep the business well organized and working well at the same scale it always has been. Nintendo won't be winning any major sales numbers until Sony and MS make as major economic mistakes as the N64 and Nintendo capitalizes on their mistake. That and some new attitude among the general population is the only thing that will reverse this.

Buy a Gamecube and get a free game ? Its just a knee jerk reaction. Too little, too late. Momentum has been lost in 1996 unfortunately.

I think Sony has shown a bit of loss in its own momentum however. The casual game craze isn't quite what it was in the PSX era, and perhaps they might make that crutial mistake that Nintendo needs them to in 2004-5. Maybe things will change in another few years ?

At that point Mr. Iwata needs to be ready to kick ass to reclaim Nintendo's rightful glory.