So pokemon go is doing exactly what Nintendo intended their mobile games to do. It's funneling their audience back onto their dedicated systems.

Now, pokemon is a juggernaut no matter how you look at it and this might be a lighting in abottle situation, but if they manage to create similar interest around their other mobile offerings they might have a solid strategy going here.

Sounds pretty obvious now that I'm reading it, but I wasnt expecting this at all. If anything, I thought it would sell more phones. Hm.

No offence,  but its kinda ironic that a home console in an apparently dead market like Japan selling the same as it's predecessor is being brought into this, when the 3DS has sold nowhere near the DS.  

Of course 200% increase is an achievement but the point still remains it's weekly total might not be that impressive for a temporary boost and thus shouldn't be blown out of proportion.  

I asked what the numbers are so I can make that judgment.  Until I'm told what the console is likely selling weekly now after the boost I won't make a call on what I think of its sales.  

By VGChartz numbers, in the equivalent week last year, the 3DS sold 5362 units in the UK, roughly half of the Ps4 at the time.

The most recent week VGC has for the UK is the week ending the 9th of July. In that, the Ps4 sold 8846 units, and the Xbox one 9860 units.

In other words, the 3DS is very possibly above the Ps4 and Xbox one in the UK this week.

If that's the case it's definitely impressive.  would like to get the official numbers though 

I don't trusth VGC sales, and i'm pretty sure 3DS is heavy overtracked in weekly sales.

Just my guess, i think 2/3k for UK market last year is way more likely, which probabily is 5k-10k this year. Still very good, if we considering that France and Germany are most likely bigger, and with Italy, Spain ecc it could be 40-50k weekly sales.

We know that the total 3DS shipments for FY2015-16 were 6.79 million, of which non-Americas/Japan were 2.18 million (https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2016/160427e.pdf). For that period, VGChartz has sold sales for Europe at 1.915 million.

The VGChartz numbers don't include the rest of the world, but for the 3DS, that's been relatively small.

In other words, there isn't a real possibility of last year's European sales being horribly wrong.

Further, the 3DS had weekly sales roughly 30k for most of last year in Europe. That's not very disputable, as  it's the only way to get to Nintendo's "other" number of 2.18 million. The UK accounting for less than 10% of Europe's hardware sales is extremely unlikely, and would to my knowledge be virtually unprecedented for any console.

This. Nintendo should be tickled pink.

Interested to see what kind of legs this boost will have.

Did they just call Eurogamer's rumor a leak?

first, you are talking about yearly sales, while i talk about a single week of last year. VGC lots of times can have yearly sales """"""""similar"""""""", but the period weekly/monthly are by far really wrong, like for PS4, yearly sales are not that bad, the problem is how bad is the track into the year.

Second, those are sell in numbers, not sold through, which are literally two difference things.

Third, even if Europe sales are overall correct, this doesn't mean UK sales are.