Nintendo 3DS: 50 million MAXIMUM worldwide by end of 2013? Don't be surprised.

[Dv8thwonder]

Yakuzaice said:

Dv8thwonder said:

Walmart is selling the 2DS for $99 on Black Friday. That's how. I may be so inclined as to change my earlier estimates and allign them more along John Lucas'. 3DS/2DS will reach 50m by the end of January.

How does a Black Friday deal make your original prediction more plausible?  My contention wasn't that it couldn't hit 42 million by year's end.  It was with 8 million next quarter if you believed the max for the rest of the holiday season was only 5 million. 

If anything you seem to agree with me.  You went from "The best it will do this Holiday season will be 42M." to "3DS/2DS will reach 50m by the end of January."  If we assume ~1.5m for January, then your prediction went from 5 million or less the rest of this holiday season to 11.5 million

Take the U.S Holiday sales boost into consideration, then couple them with other regions including Japan and these predictions/estimates will seem lowballed by comparison.