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ethomaz on 06 March 2012
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Pokemonbrawlvg said:
Acevil said:
pezus said:
ethomaz said:
kowenicki said:
pezus said:
Why don't I find the 4.5m in the press release? Is it only in the title?


i thought it was just me...  I was wondering where the number came from too.

The news in OP is incomplete... there is a table.

http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=32977

        Nintendo DS*       Nintendo 3DS**
Launch date       Nov. 21, 2004       March 27, 2011
Total HW units sold in first 12 months       2.3 million       4.5 million
Total number of SW titles released in first 12 months       58       100+
Total units of software sold in first 12 months       5 million       9 million+
Total $ sales (HW, SW and accessory) in first 12 months       $540 million       $1.2 billion+

*Source: NPD **Source: Nintendo of America ***All Figures are U.S. Only

So, 4.5m in 12 months confirmed and also confirmed that we are overtracking it a lot. Software quite overtracked too... (we have it at almost 12m...)


Personally I just find one thing strange. It hasn't been twelve months yet.

I think this is to Feburary, so it's eleven months. They probably feel that it's enough time to show how great the system is doing and the NPD March data will take some time to process.

The first 3DS NPD is March 11... so twelve months with Feb 12.