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It's not odd at all. Sales have consistently been down YoY and at those rates, Nintendo had absolutely no chance at all of hitting their hardware sales projections.

They dropped price by $50, and lo and behold, sales went up by 100% in the NA market. The real question is whether renewed interest from the sub $200 consumers will result in Nintendo hitting its projections for the year.