Confirmed? Lowest selling year for 3DS? Who needs that 3rd year peak ...

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KylieDog said:

BuckStud said:

That is ludicrous.  The 3DS has outsold every other “video game” system nearly every week this year.  If this is the last gen for a Nintendo handheld, then it’s also the last gen for all the other systems.....right?

360 - in its 8th year on market...
PS3 - in its 7th year on market...
WiiU - a failure...
Vita - a failure...

So 3DS being on top isnt saying much.

I honestly think saying how it's its Xth year on market is a bad argument simply because of the fact that those Xth years it was on market were still before the next generation came out.  I think it's more telling that PS3's 7th year on market is about 80m, and 3DS 3rd year is about 40m.  The 3DS is regardless selling faster than both of those systems were to have achieved half of their total sales in less than half of the time it took them to get there.  Especially so when, as people here are always insisting, the mobile market is "killing" the 3DS.  That means that the 3DS is stronger than the PS3 and 360 end of story, doesn't it?  Regardless of whatever year on market they were in.

Honestly, 3DS is doing pretty well regardless of how you want to twist it.  Even if it's tracking under DS, it is absurd to think that any system this gen will do those numbers.  Especially given how the market has been lately.