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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PinballLizard (Mark Wyda)" data-source="post: 139203" data-attributes="member: 4144">You're right.  Selling 5 million consoles a year means they'll do 25-30 lifetime which is more than GameCube or the original Xbox.  Who knows maybe Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, and a price cut they could do even better.  People are definitely blowing it out of proportion, but it makes me question what's going on in Iwata's head.  You'd think after the incredible success of the Wii, that they could afford to release competitive hardware, and try to get 3rd party support as the other two consoles.  Even moreso given that Sony and Microsoft both were pretty conservative all things considered with the hardware this time around (both sell at profit from day 1 IIRC), this was Nintendo's chance to get back the core gamer back in addition to their casual audience... instead they lost both groups, and have to depend on the Nintendo diehards.  But the Nintendo diehards are enough to support a console with 25 million.  Nintendo will never sell less than 20 million units and they can always be relevant, but I know personally if they released a machine that had the same 3rd party and similar power to the bone and 4, it would be my primary machine.  I mean who wouldn't, Nintendo's first party is incredible.</blockquote>

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