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darkknightkryta on 27 July 2012
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happydolphin said:
spurgeonryan said:
darkknightkryta said:
I think it'll be more interesting to compare the second/third years. The DS really exploded those years, pulling 400k a week... in the off seasons.


All of those big games that hit Japan early this year and over the next few months will be hitting ( hopefully) the West over this next year or so. So this could be the case for the 3DS as well. Plus the XL, Mario, Animal Crossing, Mansion, Paper Mario, and whatever else. It will be exciting to see.

You're absolutely right, the 3DS was blessed a year earlier than the 3DS. Year 2 holiday season will be explosive in the US.

As for why it's not destroying the front page (@darkknightkryta), it's because the 3DS is not performing in the West. That's not unusual, since the 3DS was not performing incredibly until only its 3rd year (2006). So, the 3DS is also expected to lag the Japanese success by a year, however the trend may be catalized due to big software released and remodel 1 year earlier. Since holiday 2012 will essentially be year 1.5 for the 3DS, the explosion trend will be pre-emptive by half a year sooner than the DS in terms of years from release.

Expect big sales this holiday season.

Well I'm still skeptical since the 3DS already has sequels to the games that made the DS a massive success.  And as I said earlier, the DS sold abnormally well outside of the holidays, which the 3DS has yet to do.  Last thing to add, it's still early, but I feel if New Super Mario Bros. 2 doesn't make the 3DS sell 200k plus a week outside of holidays, then I don't think the 3DS will outsell the DS (Will still sell a butt load).