Do you still believe the 3DS will not make it to 20 million units sold this year?

[the_dengle]

HikenNoAce said:

the_dengle said:

You are unbelievable. Don't avoid the issue. You asked for proof, and I provided it. Now admit that it has been proven that VGChartz has close to accurate numbers for lifetime 3DS hardware sales.

Otherwise, your skepticism is so great that I don't know why you bother being on this site, or anywhere people are discussing things that are not 110% precise at all times. Ever.

 

All that you proved is that vgchartz LTD sales numbers are close to Nintendo's LTD shipped numbers. That does not prove that vgchartz sales numbers are close to actual sales numbers.

Yet here, you assume VGChartz numbers are accurate because they suit you.

HikenNoAce said:
Back on topic, for the 3DS to sell 20M this year, total number of 3DS shipped by Nintendo by the end of the year has to be 49.85M. That means 17.37M 3DS shipped in the next 2 quarters and that's assuming that all shipped units are sold.

As a side note, the best the DS managed in those 2 quarters was back in 2007 where it shipped 18.68M.

Why do you think Nintendo would have to ship another 17 million 3DSs? Maybe the 3DS has actually only sold 20 million consoles. Then Nintendo would only have to ship another, what, 7 million? Hell, maybe it's already sold 20 million in the first half of this year, and was just way overshipped from last year.

Or maybe the 3DS has sold exactly zero consoles so far this year and will sell exactly zero consoles for the rest of the year. Maybe it has yet to sell a single console, and Nintendo just keeps shipping them to anyone who will take them off their hands.

Just how many 3DS consoles do YOU think have been sold?