Fun fact: DS has never sold as much in October as the 3DS did this October (with still 1week remaining!)

[kopstudent89]

Pineapple said:

I'm not sure where your 1.73 million is coming from. I'm getting it at 1545k for the 4 weeks. You get something very close to your number if you also add in the week ending 28th September, but that's not part of October, so I'm not sure.

I became a bit curious by this thread, so I decided to actually write down all the data.

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Average 4 weeks	Average 4 weeks DS + 3DS
2005						0	0
2006	291	274	298	376		309,75	309,75
2007	410	383	424	405	426	405,5	405,5
2008	350	359	363	382	630	363,5	363,5
2009	336	318	324	381		339,75	339,75
2010	278	245	240	314		269,25	269,25
2011	174	176	211	243		201	279
2012	194	211	202	239	283	211,5	243,25
2013	223	481	430	414		387	395,25

 

 As you can see, the 3DS' 4-week average is ever so slightly slightly behind 2007's 4-week average, but that difference is essentially nothing - it's less than 5%.

I put the total sales into a graph, as well.  

 

He got it from the VGC tools: 

It's definitely promising for the holidays if it can perform at DS like levels.