| Yakuzaice said: 3DS US Week 94: 7,929,270 Total: 25,476,170 DS US Week 94: 5,986,876 Total: 27,196,455 Considering this is ending Sept 9th for the US and Oct 15th for Japan, the gap is likely to grow much wider over the next few months. By the end of the holiday season, Japan added another ~2.6 million, roughly averaging 223k a week. In the US it added over 3 million averaging about 180k a week. In the EU the DS and 3DS launched in roughly the same point in the calendar, so the gap has already started to show there as both systems have had their second holiday. |
Eh, you did perfectly aligned sales. I always just go from first release... it's simpler that way. Easier to calculate. So for 3DS I just start at Feb 26, 2011, while for DS I start at Nov 27, 2004 -- the first week tracked by VGChartz. Two different ways of doing things. Your numbers disregard sales in other territories that bump 3DS sales up to 27.74 million. I don't know how to calculate those more accurately, so I just use global numbers X weeks after release.
My way winds up showing the 3DS taking the lead during its Holiday seasons and losing it a couple of months later as the DS enters its Holiday seasons. This amounts to the 3DS keeping pace with the DS. I don't see how keeping up with the DS just shy of 2 years on could be considered anything less than great. Even using your numbers, it's not far behind, and that's after Holiday 2006 in Europe, right? And approaching it in the US and Japan, after the global releases of the DS Lite and New Super Mario Bros., and of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl in Japan.
