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the_dengle on 17 October 2013
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Yakuzaice said:
the_dengle said:

3DS hardware seems kind of low in America. There are two weeks of greater hardware sales for the handheld this year -- already kind of suspect. The first was the week ending March 30, coinciding with the release of Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon. It opened with 271k sales and the 3DS sold over 70k. The second was the week ending June 15, when Animal Crossing: New Leaf was released with an opening week of 249k sales. The 3DS sold over 83k that week.

These two games opened with under 300k sales, yet pushed more hardware than a new Pokemon generation debuting with over 1.3 million sales -- plus a new model, the 2DS.

I don't like playing the "undertracked" card, but it's a possibility here. The numbers are suspicious to me.

Well in all likelihood, 1.3m is probably higher than the actual numbers at retail.  1.3m in the US probably means close to 1.5m for the Americas.  Add in the 2 million from retail/download cards in Japan, and we are already pretty close to 4 million.  That would leave around 500k for US day two, Europe first two days, and worldwide digital.  There's a chance Nintendo wasn't including digital and meant several hundred thousand more than 4 million, but I'd be surprised.

With that said, hardware does seem abnormally low.

Yeah, even if Pokemon itself is overtracked, it's not by over a million. There's no way around the fact that this is by far the biggest 3DS release of the year in the US, yet pushed less hardware than Luigi's Mansion or Animal Crossing. It just doesn't quite match up to me.