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[Chandler]

Kresnik said:

Chandler said:
Europe numbers are pretty good considering that they didn't advertise the XL at all. They just started advertising it in conjunction with NSMB2 rolled into one commercial, just like I suspected. I'm pretty sure the 3DS numbers will at least be stable at 70k in eurpoe for a month or so.

I'm not disagreeing with you because I haven't seen many XL adverts on TV (though, I don't watch TV so much anymore) but just here in the UK at least, 2 Gamestations I have been in have been plastered with adverts for it all over the window and inside the store.

Well I can only speak from personal experience and I haven't seen a single ad until today, where they advertised NSMB2 and the XL together in one commercial. That is all I have seen thus far. No newspaper ads, no web banners. I was in one Gamestop because of the trade in and they literally sold the XL from under the counter. They had a normal 3DS as a demo unit and nothing indicated they had a new device until I asked the employee about it.