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killeryoshis said:

With recent report of 3DS sales and Price cut I decided to see if the system was really doing bad compared to the DS. The DS had a rough start compared to the GBA and people use this as a reason why 3DS sales are low. So let's see how they compare. As of right now 

3DS in 21 weeks DS in 21 weeks
3,301,246 4,673,660

Link for DS and 3DS

*DS is the week ending of April 16th 2005

For this week 

3DS 21st week DS 21st week
90,166 84,940

The 3DS outsells DS by +5,226

The Overall Gap is  -1,372,414

I hope to do this every week. This comparison is just to see how close nintendo can get to DS numbers


I Hate to use the same excuse why the PS3 lags so much behind than the PS2 in terms of sale but here it is.  The 3DS despite much better technology than any gaming handheld out there right now sold at a price close to twice that when the original DS came out!!!  It also didn't have a Mario game at launch and as such suffered initially like many consoles without mario at launch