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Soundwave on 15 August 2013
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Carl2291 said:
kitler53 said:
S.Peelman said:
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"1.5m lower than DS first 29 months"…

DOOOOM! It's 1.5m below the best-selling, fastest selling system of all-time, shock-horror.

you realize that 1.5 M is just for the US market right?  WW the gap is over 10M now and growing fast.  at this point in time in DSs life it was selling on average 400k a week WW.

Isnt the gap closer to 8 Million WW than it is to 10 Million WW? Baring in mind that the DS had also already had Pokemon in Japan and an extra Holiday Season.

Pachter is being a bit of a dick here, simply because comparing anything to DS level sales is unfair, because nothing has ever sold as well as the DS did in the same time-frame. Not even the great PS2. To put a downer on things because it isnt selling as well as the DS was is probably, very likely a troll.


I'm pretty sure the 3DS is well below the GBA in North America too for the same time frame. In North America for equivalent time frames it is often below the PSP too.

For example, July 2007 (2 years + 4 months for PSP) vs. July 2013 (2 years + 4 months for 3DS) is 214k for the PSP vs. 141k for the 3DS.

So it's having some trouble even keeping pace with the PSP in North America month to month. Japan is what keeps the 3DS beasting.

I'm not sure if the 3DS honestly will even sell half of what the DS sold in North America. That might be a tough order to fulfill.