nuckles87 on 18 April 2013
| Soundwave said: There was a lot of confusion with the DS when it first came out because the GBA was still relatively new at that time (only 3 years old). People didn't know if this was some kind of stop gap Nintendo machine and no one really was into the touch screen. When the DS Lite and NSMB came out, that's when the DS took off. The PSP also gave the DS fairly hard competition for a year and half. |
But at this point, the DS's sales were ALREADY ramping up. The DS Lite was out, the GBA had lost much of it's relevancy, PSP had lost much of it's steam in the US, Mario Kart DS and NSMB and Nintendogs and Brain Training were all already out, and DS was doing WELL.
The fact that the 3DS is STILL selling better means that, yes, it's doing well. It's probably going to continue to do better do, especially with a main Pokemon title coming out this year that should get many millions of DS owners to make the transition. Will it outsell the DS? Probably not. Eventually it will probably catch up. 3DS will probably have a shorter life span and will probably never reach the DS's height, but that by no means makes it a "failure".
