And that's only for the last week of November, it's set to smash that the next few weeks! Now the thing is though I'm not so sure if these numbers are overtracked as I've had a hunch 3DS is being overtracked in Europe for a while. It's pretty impressive though that it beat the 3DS European launch numbers so early into the holiday season, and is set to beat its highest weekly sales ever over the next 3 weeks (which was 344k, current week 338k).
Of course the 3DS has already set its highest weeky in the last BF, which was set in 2011 at 495k, and beat that by over 200k (720k for the week). Even if these numbers were overtracked, it would take a huuuge error by VGC to get it below that number.
I know I'm a bit late commenting on this but I thought it was interesting to show how this console has been doing in the West this holiday season and for me it's well deserved. I think it shows that the 2013 lineup and the 2DS have really gained this handheld a lot of momentum towards 2014, and it's very refreshing to see that after most of us thought that handhelds were doomed this gen.
I'll just post the current numbers and the previous highest weeks:
Europe Hardware by Platform 30th November, 2013
| Platform | Weekly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3DS | 338,146 | (+20%) | 11,180,816 |
Europe Hardware by Platform 24th December, 2011
| Platform | Weekly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3DS | 344,653 | (+9%) | 3,430,045 |
Europe Hardware by Platform 26th March, 2011
| Platform | Weekly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3DS | 333,530 | (N/A) | 333,530 |
USA Hardware by Platform 30th November, 2013
| Platform | Weekly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3DS | 721,547 | (+361%) | 11,043,380 |
USA Hardware by Platform 26th November, 2011
| Platform | Weekly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3DS | 495,944 | (+243%) | 2,462,617 |
USA Hardware by Platform 24th December, 2011
| Platform | Weekly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3DS | 468,874 | (+6%) | 3,980,286 |
