well that pathetic number is the best for hardware in the entire industry in the us.
I've noticed you say something along these lines a couple of times in this thread to people questioning the health of the handheld industry? To imply that the handheld industries woes are actually the industry as a whole's woes? Doesn't that ignore that the 3DS
is the handheld industry now essentially, or at least will be going forward, once the NDS and Vita completely die out (if the latter can be considered alive now) and as such looking at the numbers handhelds are quite clearly in decline.
Combined trailing twelve-month US handheld sales haven't been this low in over a decade and as each month passes the trajectory continues to be negative, despite successor platforms having already launched for all systems.
Conversely, despite terrible home console sales for the aged 7th gen platforms, their trailing twelve-month figure is still quite a lot higher than for the 6th gen platforms at the equivalent previous transition. Even taking the Wii out entirely, the PS3 and 360 still manage to match (and exceed) the combined equivalent PS2/XBX/GCN trailing twelve months in July 2006.
This despite their age, and despite them being at a significantly higher price than those systems.
The main difference with regard to the home console market is that unlike the last transition the Wii U is not selling like the 360 did. And frankly I think it's folly to take the Wii U's failing as indicative of the market having collapsed rather than it simply not resonating as a product well. And even with how terribly the Wii U has sold compared to the 360 in the equivalent period, home consoles in the last twelve months have still sold nearly a million more units than in the equivalent period from August 2005-July 2006.
Keep the faith!