MDMAlliance said:
The 3DS selling 500k in one week is never bad. It only did "poorly" because last year it sold much more at the same time. But I think you weren't paying attention when it's been announced that Fire Emblem, Animal Crossing, and Luigi's Mansion are coming to North America next year. All of these games have good potential at selling the system. Not only that, but we have Monster Hunter 4 for Japan and global Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate for Wii U and 3DS. There's Dragon Quest VII for Japan. There are two more Zelda games that will be coming to the 3DS as well. A remake and an original. Super Smash Brothers too. ALL of these things I listed will boost the sales of the 3DS, and the 3DS' sales are ALREADY quite high, being a third of the sales of the PS3 or 360's and being out for a fifth of the time. Seriously? |
I'm retarded? Thanks for the comment.
Its going to be a big loser compared to the DS. By the end of the generation, mobiles will have taken away what market share Nintendo (still) has, leaving very little for them to pick over.
The 3DS selling 500k in one week isn't bad if you don't bother looking at comparative DS sales during the same point in its lifespan. The DS sold 850,000 units in 2006, and 1.3m in 2007. Do you believe that the titles you listed are going to give the 3DS a 150% increase in unit sales for Holiday 2013? If not, its going to fall further and further behind.
And to me, that is going to be a big dissapointment to Nintendo. Both Sony and Nintendo are going to lose a lot of market share, because their devices are not very different from their last generation offerings, whereas mobiles are really disrupting the market and economics for both systems.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
