Sony: 2.2 Million PS Vita Units Sold Worldwide

[Salnax]

ganoncrotch said:

Salnax said:

curl-6 said:
One thing in the Vita's favor in the 3DS doesn't seem to have a powerful lineup for the rest of the year.

Here here! 2012 seems to be a mediocre year at best for the 3DS.

you know black and white two touchs down at the start of october in states and europe and those games are fairly big money spinners for nintendo, add to that they've put together a fair amount of integration with the 3ds's application the pokedex 3d so I'd say we're going to see a whole lot of kids getting copies of that along with a shiny new 3dsxl... if they can rant at their parents enough :D

I just can't see the 3DS getting a big boost from Pokemon. Sure, there was a decent (18%) boost in Japan, but the most notable hardware boost was for the DS (67%). And the 3DS boost was gone after a week and a half. Meanwhile, the DS is still doing decently in America. If anything, I expect the DS to get a boost as parents buy cheap Pokemon bundles for their kids.

When I look at the 3DS's lineup for this holiday season, the only two big sellers I see are Paper Mario and Professor Layton. Those are the only two definite million sellers I can see. Other games like Scribblenauts Unlimited, Epic Mickey, Freakyforms Deluxe, Skylanders, Adventure Time, Rabbids Rumble, Lego LOTR, Angry Birds, and Sonic Racing offer plenty of variety, but I doubt most of them will be great sellers or huge critical hits.

And then you have a DS game, of all things, hogging the spotlight away from the 3DS. I dunno, it's just as if Nintendo released New Super Mario Bros on the GBA instead of the DS. Sure, they would have gotten a lot of sales, but at the expense of selling new hardware.