Global up 31st March

[Alby_da_Wolf]

kowenicki said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:
Meh week. PSV very, very low, but 3DS managed to drop even lower before price cut.
3DS is huge in Japan, but not so big WW, if we consider that 3DS+DS is smaller than DS alone used to be, even in the dead season, before Ninty started killing it.

Only when the price cut was rumored/known. 

True. Actually we can see that 3DS shines if compared to PSV's poor performance, PSV needs a comparison with 3DS at its worst to not look too bad, but both are currently disappointing compared to last gen. One of Sony's biggest mistakes with PSV is the same it did with PS3, a device so expensive needs a simultaneous WW launch able to fully exploit the first Xmas to achieve an initial boost as large as possible from early adopters and reach early enough the critical mass at which 3rd parties start releasing more important games. Ninty's biggest mistake was probably to kill too early DS sales, before 3DS was actually able to intercept them. And with Wii and Wii U this risky strategy can go even worse, as both PS3 and XB360 have already become stronger than Wii, while PSP became stronger than DS only in Japan when it could still be useful, while it is WW only now, with DS almost dead.