Global up 31st March

[kitler53]

RolStoppable said:

kitler53 said:

RolStoppable said:

kowenicki said:
All a bit meh apart from 3DS

It's more like this. People are blinded by everything doing bad, so they think that the 3DS numbers are good. It's selling at a horrible pace outside of Japan.

i would think horrible is a bit of an overstatement.  yes the rest of the pack's poor performance make the 3DS look better than it really is but being on the happy side of 200k is definently respectable outside the holiday period.

No, it really isn't when 120k units of those sales come from Japan. The minimum target for the 3DS has to be 300k worldwide in a week with no big releases. Anything below that is evidence that Nintendo is doing something wrong.

300k weekly is 15.6M a year which assumes no holiday boost to boot.  if your minimum is better than best ever than your expectations are set too high.  even with vita floundering and probably existing the field mid-gen the smartphones are competing too.  i know smartphones don't compete head to head with dedicated devices but they do play games and especially in the over 30/brain age type audience smartphone games are more than enough.