atma998 said: Since when selling at the same pace as the best selling console of all time is considered doomed? |
The 3DS isn't even in the same ballpark as the PS2.
Japan 33 weeks: 3,257,233
Americas 28 weeks: 2,903,220
EMEAA 29 weeks: 2,274,215
Total: 8,434,668 Granted that includes a holiday, but it was also supply constrained and didn't receive a huge pricecut.
In the same time, the 3DS is at 5,721,774. Of course that is slightly overtracked in the US for August and substantially overtracked in September. We'll see pretty soon what Nintendo's numbers are for Europe.
But I guess you were probably talking about the DS...
Japan 33 weeks: 2,568,872
Americas: 28 weeks: 2,090,682
EMEAA 29 weeks: 1,395,289
Total: 6,054,843 Still quite a bit ahead, but the gap should be closed fairly soon. The real test is if it can still sell on par while the DS was actually selling huge numbers. Doing 20-30 million a year, year after year.