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Forums - Sales Discussion - Nintendo reveals first shippment number for 3DS

UncleScrooge on 10 January 2011
greenmedic88 said:
RolStoppable said:

This looks like they are going to send out only the bare minimum and then kick off the new fiscal year with some big numbers, kinda like that Wii stockpiling in 2008 when March was moderate and then April (GTA IV month) sent shockwaves through the industry and internet. Those were some epic meltdowns.

This is most likely exactly what Nintendo is planning on doing. The only question I have is why they didn't simply launch the product at the start of the new fiscal year unless they're planning on letting media coverage of the "extreme shortages" and subsequent sell outs help market and build the 3DS name as regular supplies are released to retail.


It's because of their fiscal year projection. They planned to release the system around christmas but it looks like the 3D screen is really hard to manufacture (ever wondered why the blue 3DS has got a black 3D screen?). I doubt they want to create shortages on purpose. But imagine if they pushed the 3DS back to next fiscal year. They already had to lower their DS / Wii forecasts. There would be no way to tell investors their new machine has been delayed into the next fiscal year. Also third parties are prepared to launch their games before April so a later launch would affect their fiscal year results as well. Hope that helped



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jarrod on 10 January 2011

UncleScrooge said:

ever wondered why the blue 3DS has got a black 3D screen?

It's for the 3D effect.  Anything that "pops" needs black behind it for the illusion to work.



MrT-Tar on 10 January 2011

That means that there is going to be a fuck load of excess demand, which means I'll be less likely to get one on launch date.

I managed it with the Wii, so I've got my fingers crossed




Porcupine_I on 10 January 2011

/conspiracy

Microsoft has paid them (insert insane amount of money) to do this, on order to keep Kinect the fastest selling Gadget

/conspiracy off

 

 



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Siko1989 on 10 January 2011

Iwata is insane, it will pull wii numbers on launch, or the original DS Launch numbers




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UncleScrooge on 10 January 2011
jarrod said:

UncleScrooge said:

ever wondered why the blue 3DS has got a black 3D screen?

It's for the 3D effect.  Anything that "pops" needs black behind it for the illusion to work.


Oh man that's bad. So we'll never get a white 3DS (well... not a proper one). My girlfriend won't like that

I stupidly assumed it was because of some sort of production issue (although it sounds strange they'd only have one color for the screen)



primogen18 on 10 January 2011

I wonder how much I'll get for my DSL and a few games... *looks around room for anything else to sell*



Asriel on 10 January 2011

I'm betting there'll be a big shipment in April. Plus, the EU/NA launches will be in the latter half of March, which makes that 2.5million left between those two markets reasonable, as far as I'm concerned. Who's to say they won't have another 4 million shipped in April? :P



Carl on 10 January 2011

While you lot fight over this on Launch, and pay out stupid prices on Ebay for it...

 

I will be chilling out, waiting for the 3DS Lite.



                            

jarrod on 10 January 2011
Carl2291 said:

I will be chilling out, waiting for the 3DS Lite.

You'll be waiting forever... 3DS is already about as small as DS Lite, if we see a 3DS revision, it'll be bigger (ie: 3DS XL).