Japanese sales: 3DS 2013 vs DS 2006 (Week 41!)

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the_dengle said:

NintendoPie said:

What an absolute FAILURE!

OT: I hope that it pops up to the 2006 line when sales get put in.

If the 3DS can't even keep up with the DS at the beginning of the year, it has no hope of keeping pace for the year as a whole. The DS sold only 110k the first week of 2006, while 3DS sold 245k the first week of 2012. The 3DS should be able to build a healthy lead over the DS for the first 20 weeks... then NSMB is released, and all bets are off.

But then later on in the year Japan gets DQ and Pokemon for the 3DS. It'll be interesting to see how much these two games boost the 3DS in comparison to NSMB.