| spurgeonryan said:
I am talking about during it's year or so of doing horrible. When Nintendo was struggling to fix it. I think you know full well what I am talking about. Remember....the first year it was out they had to cut the price, release some big games, and give ambassador games out? Many did not have high hopes for it at that time. |
By year, do you mean the roughly three to four months post launch, pre price cut? A time period where the 3DS only dropped as low as 75k (not counting the weeks right before the price cut took effect), where it also saw weeks above 100k, even in June and July. Numerically, it doesn't seem like it will settle much higher post AC bump. Is the difference between domination and struggle only 30 or 40 thousand units?
First of all, I'm not sure why "No one thought that the 3DS would dominate anything" only applies to the time period where it was doing its worst, but let's be realistic. Even during the worst weeks of the 3DS there were still people who thought it would end up dominating. The "selling faster than the DS" chant was even stronger then. While I'm not going to go search for threads, I am sure that some people defended Nintendo's 16 million forecast, which they still held to in July.
