RolStoppable said:
It's a good thing that we have numbers on this site, isn't it? I picked a week in early 2007 as the starting point and you can use the arrows next to "Week ending ..." to go through the charts. The guy you quoted claimed that the DS sold half a million units a month, unless a big event occured. But if you look through the sales charts, you'll find that 400k units a week were actually the norm, putting the DS easily past the 1.5m mark for an average month. Also, I never said that the DS sold 10 million units in a month. For my rough estimate of 3DS sales for this year in my previous post, I put the holiday season at two full months (system sells 1m per month for a total of 10m, so that's ten months, then another 10m in the rest of the year). That's an optimistic outlook, so the actual numbers should be lower. But hey, that plays in favor of you guys who defend the 3DS, so you should have nothing to complain about. Alternatively, you can use the yearly charts. In 2006, the DS's second year, the system moved in excess of 20m units which is already nothing to scoff at, but in the following years it sold 30m units or close to it. So if you have some basic grasp of numbers, you'll realize that the 3DS selling 250k units a week (which it does right now) isn't going to be enough to outpace the DS forever; and Nintendo's goal cannot be to do significantly worse than in the previous generation, so they cannot be satisfied with the current level of sales. |
"The kid talking about the 3DS", pure vgchartz gold!!!
