| Pineapple said: The 3DS isn't performing quite as hideously as people want to make it out to be. In the start of February 2005 (2 months and 2 weeks after launch), the DS sold around 37,000 a week, while the GBA was selling 70,000 a week. This week (2 months after launch) the 3DS is selling 32,000 while the DS sold 50,000. In EMEAA, the DS sold 35,000 2 months after launch, while the 3DS is selling 30,000 2 months after launch. In Japan, the DS sold 32,000 2 months after launch (in February) while the 3DS is selling 23,000 (in May). Overall, the 3DS is performing slightly worse than the DS originally did. Which is somewhat poor, obviously, but far from atrocious. Starting out slightly worse than the system that went on to become the best selling video game machine of all time isn't the worst thing that could happen.
And those Mario Kart Wii sales make me very happy. |
Just because DS had an abnormal sales curve doesn't mean that 3DS will follow exactly the same one albeit lower. Those trends mean absolutely nothing. Looking at past HW sales from different consoles is almost useless, except when you are looking at seasonality.
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Bets with Conegamer:
Pandora's Tower will have an opening week of less than 37k in Japan. (Won!)
Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
Stakes: 1 week of avatar control for each one.
