Who the **** does Michael Packter think he is? Honestly, what type of bullshit job is an industry analyst, I've been following the console industry closely since 1997. Does someone pay him to make bullshit predictions, where can I sign up? Want to know when to buy and sell stocks? buy stocks now, and sell them 4 years from now, you'll make a killing. Nintendo has a 100+ year history with minimal debt, in the last nearly 30 years they have released a game console every 5, the initial 2.5 years were usually the most profitable, while the remaining 3 so stagnation and losses do to shifting priorities of third parties, in the last cycle they had unprecedented growth despite analyst claiming they would fold and develop for other systems. They managed to capture the majority of the market share and sell 80 million consoles and 100 million handehelds. Investors were woried about the new 3ds after it was only out for a month and didn't sell 100 million units, most investors were not investors when its predecessor came out and didn't sell because it was "ugly", the fact is Nintendo seems to have figured out that changing the aesthetics of its systems slightly (for instance color), and lowering its prices in 2 year intervals causes it to maintain sells. At the least one can expect any Nintendo system to sell at least 18 million units and at the most 100 million. Annual profit for Nintendo software is about 15 billion dollars.