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How will 3DS do compared to the DS in its first year?

3DS will win 468 54.55%
 
DS will win 199 23.19%
 
Netrual 33 3.85%
 
It will be close 78 9.09%
 
See poll Results 76 8.86%
 
Total:854
Paul on 04 November 2011

Does this mean the 3DS will go on to sell 200 million consoles?



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fedfed on 04 November 2011
Paul said:
Does this mean the 3DS will go on to sell 200 million consoles?



Ehhhmmm, NO!



Switch!!!

fedfed on 04 November 2011

Well Done!!!!

Now i want 10mil by Xmas eve!



Switch!!!

bmmb1 on 04 November 2011
Lostplanet22 said:
lestatdark said:
I'm not much into sales and data regarding consoles, but I just would like to give the following recommendation:

Whenever those pesky 3DS is doomed threads are put up, everyone should just link with this thread. It really is a big "shut the fuck up" to the people who actually believe that the 3DS is doing a lot poorly than the DS.

It really annoys the hell out of me when a great console gets constantly bashed with untrue arguments.

I know a late response but my reaction counts for everyone in this thread.   Many even Nintendo fans called the first year sales of the DS troublesome, in fact after the first year people really start to believe DS could fail and that PSP could pwn it...    While it is for sure an achievement that 3DS will sell more than DS in his first year it rather gives me a bad taste...

While the first year of the DS may have been "troublesome", beyond the price difference (which had a major influence), you are not taking one other major thing into account - that in this sales aligned comparison, the DS has already had its holiday season, while the 3DS holiday season is still ahead of it. The combination of this and its initial price are the main reasons why it took the 3DS time to surpass DS sales. It seems quite certain now that once the holidays are reached (any week now...), 3DS 1st year sales will not simply surpass but own DS 1st year sales.



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Christian973 on 04 November 2011

All those people that voted for DS will eat crow.



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Lostplanet22 on 04 November 2011
bmmb1 said:
Lostplanet22 said:
lestatdark said:
I'm not much into sales and data regarding consoles, but I just would like to give the following recommendation:

Whenever those pesky 3DS is doomed threads are put up, everyone should just link with this thread. It really is a big "shut the fuck up" to the people who actually believe that the 3DS is doing a lot poorly than the DS.

It really annoys the hell out of me when a great console gets constantly bashed with untrue arguments.

I know a late response but my reaction counts for everyone in this thread.   Many even Nintendo fans called the first year sales of the DS troublesome, in fact after the first year people really start to believe DS could fail and that PSP could pwn it...    While it is for sure an achievement that 3DS will sell more than DS in his first year it rather gives me a bad taste...

While the first year of the DS may have been "troublesome", beyond the price difference (which had a major influence), you are not taking one other major thing into account - that in this sales aligned comparison, the DS has already had its holiday season, while the 3DS holiday season is still ahead of it. The combination of this and its initial price are the main reasons why it took the 3DS time to surpass DS sales. It seems quite certain now that once the holidays are reached (any week now...), 3DS 1st year sales will not simply surpass but own DS 1st year sales.


And that is all I had to say.  Again passing something that was not doing great at that time is almost a great achievement for some.  And I took all of that in comparison....And?  



 

bmmb1 on 04 November 2011
Lostplanet22 said:
bmmb1 said:
Lostplanet22 said:
lestatdark said:
I'm not much into sales and data regarding consoles, but I just would like to give the following recommendation:

Whenever those pesky 3DS is doomed threads are put up, everyone should just link with this thread. It really is a big "shut the fuck up" to the people who actually believe that the 3DS is doing a lot poorly than the DS.

It really annoys the hell out of me when a great console gets constantly bashed with untrue arguments.

I know a late response but my reaction counts for everyone in this thread.   Many even Nintendo fans called the first year sales of the DS troublesome, in fact after the first year people really start to believe DS could fail and that PSP could pwn it...    While it is for sure an achievement that 3DS will sell more than DS in his first year it rather gives me a bad taste...

While the first year of the DS may have been "troublesome", beyond the price difference (which had a major influence), you are not taking one other major thing into account - that in this sales aligned comparison, the DS has already had its holiday season, while the 3DS holiday season is still ahead of it. The combination of this and its initial price are the main reasons why it took the 3DS time to surpass DS sales. It seems quite certain now that once the holidays are reached (any week now...), 3DS 1st year sales will not simply surpass but own DS 1st year sales.


And that is all I had to say.  Again passing something that was not doing great at that time is almost a great achievement for some.  And I took all of that in comparison....And?  

Well... While doing better than DS first year may not be the greatest achievement of all time, I think the sense of a great achievement is because of all the "dooooommmed" and "bomb" proclamations that surrounded the 3DS. For a supposedly doomed console to pass its predecessor's first year is subjectively an achievement.



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Anticipating: Xenoblade, The Last Story, Mario Kart 7, Rayman Origins, Zelda SS, Crush3D, Tales of the Abyss 3DS, MGS:Snake Eater 3DS, RE:Revelations, Time Travellers, Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney, Luigi's Mansion 2, MH TriG, DQ Monsters, Heroes of Ruin

Salnax on 04 November 2011
Christian973 said:
All those people that voted for DS will eat crow.


Nom nom nom! Totally worth it.

I'm going to celebrate by scouring the internet for Super Mario 3D Land trailers and looking at attach rates.



Love and tolerate.

megaman79 on 05 November 2011

Something to boast about for Nintendo. This is great news.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

sethnintendo on 05 November 2011

Thanks for the thread. It sheds some light that the so called video game "analyst" have their heads up their asses. A 5 year old could predict the market better than them.