Soundwave on 13 August 2013
| spurgeonryan said: During the DS's 2010 holiday late november to end of December it pushed out about 9.5 million from what I can see. The 3DS does not even need that extra to get to 20 million and this is going to be a huge year. I do not know what the DS had that year, but maybe it was bigger than what the 3DS is getting? |
When a system gets past its 3rd/4th year "software library" for any immediate sales quarter has less and less of an impact. The library is already mature and people are buying the system at that point because of its established reputation.
2010 the DSi XL had launched too IIRC, but the system was basically on cruise control by then, selling a lot on evergreen software like NSMB and Mario Kart DS and so on.
The impact of things like the iOS shop (Angry Birds had just launched in Dec 2009) and the iPad (not released until 2010) was still not impacting the traditional handheld market as much either.
