| Immortal said: Also, since everybody appears to have lost hope in the 3DS, I'd like to point out that these sales are far from terrible. It's tracking well below DS in its fourth week, which was at 340k(!), but that was during the holidays with a much stronger launch line-up. Within four weeks of then, it had declined to current 3DS levels and then continued to decline till it hit sub-30k, even though that was in a stronger month than March. If 3DS can hold at a decent 40k or so, which shouldn't be too hard, regardless of whether or not it's below PSP, it won't be hard to start tracking ahead of DS again. On top of that, the real hitters, as far as software goes, are soon to come. I'd say it's more PSP's sales that's making people think 3DS is doing terrible than 3DS's own sales. EDIT - Wow, I was just beaten by a post completely contradicting me, xD. I don't see how the launches of GBA and PS2 matter, though - they were ridiculously frontloaded and even ahead of the DS, which they didn't near in LT sales. |
It all depends on how later software releases will effect its sales, much like with the DS.
The DS had Nintendogs pretty early on in Japan. Nintendogs Cats has sold only a fraction of what the original sold (<200k vs ~2 million).
Mario Kart, the next Super Mario Bros., and inevitably Pokemon should turn things around. The question is when will they arrive, and whether the NGP will be able to gain any ground in the interim.
But remember that the DS had a lot more going for it than the 3DS. It was a relatively cheap device with an abundance of software support and an innovative control scheme that helped lure in a larger market than previous handhelds. The 3DS is more or less a DS 2.0, only with a much higher pricetag and so far a rather quiet release schedule.
