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Guys, this month 3DS did good.
It's true, the number of units sold per week has decreased from 58k to 52k, and I thought it would have done at least 300k, but this can happen after the first week with the cut in effect, especially if it has no games able to carry the hardware (even if SF did 130k very good especially seeing the install base).
But the most important thing is that 3DS is eating a lot in DS sales: this month DS did only 145k, with a decrease of weekly sales from 41k to 29k of average.
This means that audience is shifting with a good pace from a console to the other.
And, above all, even if no one remembers it, in USA the adoption of a new console is far far slower than in Japan.
360 had a very slow start.
PS3...we know, but in that case the absurd price is the real reason.
Wii had a good start, and a good first Holiday, but records started being done in its second year (also because in its first year it suffered severe shortages, but also the second year it had them )
DS...eeeh...DS NEVER did over 200k in its first 20 months (except for Holiday months, obviously), and it was doing bas number, behind GBA. It suffered a LOT GBA, Then, the Lite and NSMB came, and the rest is history.
So, the fact that 3DS is already eating lots of sales that, without a price cut, would have been directed to DS ( remember that DS obtained to do almost 400k this June... it was still a monster! ) is VERY good for the future, especially with the two Mario games incoming.