Global UP! 9th February 2013 (Global Software added)

[Buzzi]

pezus said:

Buzzi said:

morenoingrato said:
Yeah, yeah, WiiU and Vita are doing badly, old news.

What's wrong with 3DS? :O

It's selling ABYSMALLY on the West and it's no WiiU or Vita, the line-up is fantastic. Then you wonder why Japan gets all the nice thing. :-/

What did it get in the last two months? Literally nothing, Paper Mario can't sell forever, 3DS needs new games and they're coming luckily, but from March. 2013 should be the best year for the console saleswise, finally Nintendo understood you cannot expect to sell well with just 2-3 good games every quarter, and in Japan sales will explode with MH4 and Pokemon X/Y.

It just got Fire Emblem this week though. 

Indeed, a decrease in sales with a 150+k game released (+124% SW!) seems strange, especially with such a low userbase to start with, either the SW sales are overtracked or the 3DS HW sales for this week are higher than estimated. The whole topic is the same though, few game released equals few consoles sold, the reason why 3DS has posted good numbers both the past years is that Nintendo pushed the consoles artificially (price-cut and XL) but not naturally, like they did in Japan, with the help of TPs.