MDMAlliance on 20 January 2013
| OceanJ said:
Don't be fooled or deceived by the 3DS "outpacing" the DS. The DS was the pioneer, the trailblazer. The 3DS launch sales stand on the shoulders of the DS's success. In other words - the 3DS leveraged the existing "blue-ocean" of DS owners to sell to, while the DS had to carve out its own specific market. |
I don't quite think that's the case with the 3DS. I think the DS + the multiple models of the DS has actually harmed the 3DS' sales at launch AND the time afterward. The DS also did not start from scratch as there were Nintendo handhelds BEFORE the DS, so the DS definitely had stood on the shoulders of its previous generation, the GBA SP.
