haxxiy said:
Buzzi said:
Zlejedi said:
Buzzi said:
Zlejedi said:
Is 400k really that awesome ?
Where are those 1,2 M preorders from America and EMEA ?
Where are those 200k 3dses that were supposed to be sold in UK alone ?
Hell Wikipedia mentions PSP sold over 185k in it's first week in UK alone.
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Just one day sales? I know most people who preordered picked up their system on its first day, but still 1 day is different from a full week, look at Japan, in its first two days it sold pretty much 2/3 of the FW and Japan is the most frontloaded country...next week numbers should be still excellent (plus we should wait for further adjustements, like there have been for SW).
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First week sales always are just 1-2-3 days (depending on region etc)
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In US they'll be 6 days.
And anyway, I was not comparing 3DS launch with other consoles, just saying that FW means nothing about consoles sales. If Nintendo said that 3DS is the most preordered console ever for them, how could it possibly have a worse opening than their major consoles (DS, GB, Wii)? Only if the shipments were low, but I haven't heard of those problems in Europe like there have been in japan...
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A bigger % of preorder sales compared to the grand total, maybe? It often happens with products hyped that much.
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I'm not denying this, but as much frontloaded as 3DS can be it won't sell bad after its first day. And my point is that these sales are just first day sales (I would wait for Nintendo data, which usually comes just after the launch of a new important product). Going by this kind of analysis we should have called flop in Japan, it sold less than Wii and GBA there. Actually it's impossible to predict accurate numbers, but 3DS won't fall from most preordered console to the worst selling console of the last two generations...and as many of you said, it really needs games and time, people still don't understand the importance of 3D or how it's a completely new console, this process will take som time and Nintendo know it: if it wasn't for Japan the 4m mark was quite in the bag (1.4m Japan about 700k in a full week in EMEEA and 1.6m in Americas is not impossible).
