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Forums - Sales Discussion - Prediction: 3DS to get 90% market share by January 2015

Right now it has about 83% market share

I think the end of January will be the very latest 3DS gets 90% share

When do you guys think?



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no its physically impossible, Vita is currently at 9 million, let's say 10 million by the end of the year. for 3DS to have 90% market share, it would need to be at 90 million by the end of the year.



When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.

So, you predict 90 million 3DS by end of year?

When you lifetime prediction is 75 million? O-o



Seems about right. Could be February though.



I'm more fascinated by how you thought it WOULD work if you thought his math was wrong.



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Basically, you are predicting the 3DS will outsell the iPhone 6 in the next 3 months.  It'd be hard enough for it to outsell the Samsung Galaxy S5, let alone the iPhone.



zorg1000 said:
no its physically impossible, Vita is currently at 9 million, let's say 10 million by the end of the year. for 3DS to have 90% market share, it would need to be at 90 million by the end of the year.

Wait... there is something off about the math... the 3ds is at 45 million and it has 83% market share so it shouldn't need double the amount to reach 90% right? But I might be wrong cause its too early for me loll but something seems off



                  

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
zorg1000 said:
no its physically impossible, Vita is currently at 9 million, let's say 10 million by the end of the year. for 3DS to have 90% market share, it would need to be at 90 million by the end of the year.

Wait... there is something off about the math... the 3ds is at 45 million and it has 83% market share so it shouldn't need double the amount to reach 90% right? But I might be wrong cause its too early for me loll but something seems off


The math is exactly right (well, it'd be generous to Vita to say it'll be 10 million by the end of the year, but let's assume it doesn't sell ANYTHING and is still at 9 million).  The 3DS would still need to be at 81 million.  Think about it: the only way to reduce Vita's share from 17% to 10%, short of having people actively trade them in for a 3DS, is to grow the market by about 70% so that 17 turns into 10.



mZuzek said:
This sounds fairly possible until you realize how math works.

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You're nuts. I think you haven't thought this through.

Even if Vita stops selling now, you expect 3DS to be at 81m by the end of the year?



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