| *Sound Of Rain said: 3DS>DS for 2011. DS sales just dropped to 13K in Japan this week...I expect DS sales to drop in America & Others too after a month after 3DS is out. |
Japan is irrelevant because it always has been handheld centric and is not a metric to define how well a video game will do. Heck, the PSP was very sucessfull there relatively to other markets. Let's look at some random weeks for the DS/GBA:
Week Ending 15th May 2005
Japan:
| DS 26,150 | |
| GBA 9,597 | |
EMEAA:
| DS 39,396 | |||
| GBA 25,643 |
Americas:
| GBA 63,549 |
|
| DS 16,039 | |
|
Week Ending 01st Oct 2005
Japan:
| GBA 43,909 | |
DS 42,726
EMEAA:
| GBA 29,831 |
|
DS 20,175
Americas:
GBA 48,122
DS 40,343
Week Ending 18th Dec 2005
Japan:
DS 398,435
GBA 42,392
EMEAA:
DS 337,141
GBA 206,137
Americas:
GBA 373,276
DS 312,167
Year summary:
2005
| Pos | Console | Americas | Japan | EMEAA | Worldwide |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PS2 |
6.31 | 2.18 | 10.29 | 18.78 |
| 2 | DS | 2.93 | 4.23 | 3.78 | 10.93 |
| 3 | PSP | 4.07 | 2.22 | 3.31 | 9.60 |
| 4 | GBA | 4.96 | 1.26 | 2.54 | 8.76 |
| 5 | XB | 2.49 | 0.01 | 1.12 | 3.62 |
| 6 | GC | 1.84 | 0.27 | 0.63 | 2.74 |
| 7 | X360 | 0.65 | 0.09 | 0.44 | 1.17 |
| 8 | PS | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
| Totals | 23.25 | 10.27 | 22.11 | 55.62 |
The GBA CRUSHED the DS in Americas even at the year it was full out. The reverse happened at Japan, and it was so-so in EMEAA. Add in the factors I gave on the OP and there you have it: a 3DS toasted by it's predecessor.
Above: still the best game of the year.
