DS vs 3DS Sales Aligned Launches 1st year edition

[Buzzi]

RolStoppable said:

Buzzi said:
In 2005, DS sold a bit less than 6m between November and Dicember. Going by this trend, 3DS could actually reach even 7m, considering it has some great system sellers, while DS "only" had Animal Crossing and Brain Age (which pushed the system for months tough). 7m in two months would be amazing, it means about 850k weekly, and possibly even a 2m week (that would be awesome, but very difficult). Still, Nintendo is now on track to reach its enormous prediction of 16m for the FY (6m+6m means less than 4m for 3 months, and the weekly numbers in Q1 after MK/MH/M3DL should be higher than now).

The DS had Nintendogs and Mario Kart DS in 2005 along with a batch of new colors. Those things were much more important, because they were available worldwide while Animal Crossing and Brain Age were Japan only in 2005.

That's true, but Nintendogs was launched in the summer, and we're past it now, but still the 3DS is outselling the DS by a confortable margin. I don't want to downplay Nintendogs' role, but I think right now M3D and MH3G will give a similar boost, not long term, but for the holiday season.