Global up 31st March

[Viper1]

RolStoppable said:

kitler53 said:

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.

You mentioned before that at this point in time that japan already had the DS Lite.  Your 300K target factors in Japan having the DS Lite which makes it unfair to suggest the 3DS needs to mimic the first months sales of the DS Lite in Japan.

US sales of the DS 1 month after the DS Lite had launched in Japan were around 37k.  3DS sales in the US right now are 48k.  So it is trending ahead of the DS in the US.  DS + DS Lite sales in Japan for the same week were 213k which is higher than the 3DS's current 120k but Kid Icarus is not expected to be a hardware driver as a much as a new console model would be.