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TheLastStarFighter said:
VXIII said:
gum said:
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http://www.vgchartz.com/tools/hw_date.php?reg=Global&ending=Yearly


2013 is not finished you know and with the holidays, Pokemon, Zelda or MH don't worry it will end selling really well this year too. Be careful how you interpret those numbers...


It's an indication nothing more. 3DS is going to be huge during the holidays for sure. However, the decline is also too significant to ignore considering a price cut and the XL redesign have already taken place.

I'm not sure you understand what that graph says.  It doesn't indicate anything, other than 3DS sold better than DS through years one and two.  The third data point is incomplete, so no trend can be interpreted.  That's not a continuous graph, but rather a connection of descrete data points with straight lines.

The DS was selling more that 380,000 units weekly during August 2006 compared to 160,000 for the 3DS now. There is an obvious decline. But yeah, I misunderstood the graph. Still ...