| trestres said:
True but considering Nintendo's expectations, if the quake hadn't happened sales wouldn't have reached the projected numbers anyways. I guess they got too confident with the 3DS. |
I'm not sure you can say that, I suspect 3DS sales would've held a decent amount higher the past 2 weeks if not for the quake/tsunami/looming meltdown. In the end maybe Nintendo would be looking at selling though 75% of their shipment target, rather than just 50%, but that's still an appreciable difference. That'd also probably be enough to make their shipment target in Japan (which I doubt they will now).
3DS is sold out on Amazon.jp btw, all orders placed are for next week's shipments, so there's clearly already some level of logistics impacting things, not just demand leading supply. That's also the reason for PSP's massive drop this week.
Going portable only would be controversial, but I think I'd honestly prefer it. Getting the full Virtual Console on 3DS would be worth it alone. <3
