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Train wreck on 14 June 2012
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TheSource said:
Train wreck said:
So for the month of may 2011 the 3DS brought in 24.1 million dollars in revenue with no price cut and really no games.

The month of may 2012, with a lower price (40%), 2 main line mario games, 3rd party out the ass, a peripheral, hardware revenue dropped to 19.8 million dollars, selling only about 20k more units

That's truly scary.

Is that a napkin calculation or do you have a link? It strikes me as correct off the top of my head but I haven't seen those numbers anywhere.

I think it's fairly conceivable that 3DS does only 1/2 to 2/3 what DS did in the West (DS is at 120m in the West), and 75-85% of what it did in Japan (DS is at 33m in Japan). That'd be 72m West / 28m Japan roughly.

Just taking the MSRP of the 3DS during the two time periods in the US and multiplying by the NPD number