WiiU sells ~220k, Mario 215k in November. 3DS 770k, Zelda 405k (NPD USA) - Nintendo

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Purple said:

osed125 said:

leo-j said:
yea.. a 15% increase with new hardware and a price of $99 is flying off shelves?

What part of "more than anything else" you didn't understand? by your definition nothing fly off the shelves this month (not counting the new hardware of course)

3DS sold the BEST! (If you ignore the consoles that sold better than it)

~800k is okay sales, but it's far below what Nintendo were expecting and is reflective of a serious decline in the handheld market.

Yeah as much as the Wii U sales hurt, I think the 3DS sales, while healthy on a relative metric, sting Nintendo badly. 

It shows they're not getting much growth out of the handheld business despite throwing basically everything they could at the market this year and Iwata won't be able to play the "I turned around the 3DS business, give me time with Wii U" card to investors as much. 

They are definitely missing their 3DS sales targets. Not getting 1 million in sales this November with everything Nintendo put into this holiday season for the 3DS is probably a bitter, bitter pill to swallow over the head offices in Japan.