EMEAA 26th march up!

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Buzzi said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

3DS launch in EMEAA is both very good, as absolute numbers, but also a little bit disappointing compared to Japanese launch, as sales:population ratio. If early news are true, though, American launch should be as stellar as the Japanese one from every point of view. Bad idea not making Prof Layton a launch title here too, with it 3DS SW would have most certainly achieved a tie ratio>1 at launch, beating Japan. Nice to see home consoles weren't damaged by 3DS launch, getting instead even a boost from their own SW launches. Minimum flection for PSP and small for DS and PS2 too. Excellent week, so.

You know in Europe we still miss Layton 4? Why launching 5 without the forth episode on shelves...and that is a DS game. The fact is that the 3DS won't have many system sellers this year, but many, many games so that even small sellers will be important to keep sales high. Right now people think "too highprice" or "no games" or "just an upgrade of DS"...but in the next months, with direct feedback, they'll change their mind and 3DS will enjoy good to great sales. After all, the remake of the best game ever is just behind the corner (obviously I'm referring to Zelda OoT) :P

I didn't know, the various versions aren't named with version numbers and I don't follow portables enough to know it if I don't happen to read it or other people tell me, but the fact that one of the best selling portable Nintendo series is stuck at the 3rd chapter in EMEAA when 3DS is launching with the 5th chapter confirms my criticism, that is just a small part of the picture, but, IMVHO, not little significant, as if it's perfectly normal that the SW library be still small at launch of new HW, not having one of the most important titles of the library available everywhere yet doesn't look a good move to me. Many early adopters are likely to buy more SW during the initial enthusiasm, so, while the vast majority of users will buy later, a few tens thousand SW sales could be missed if the already small launch line-up hasn't all its most important titles available everywhere.