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Justagamer on 24 February 2014
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tbone51 said:
outlawauron said:
tbone51 said:
NintendoPie said:
outlawauron said:

In what world are expectations for Nintendo's handheld the same as Sony's handheld? Of course there's a double standard because expectations for the two devices are completely different.

Even with the standard that Nintendo's Handhelds sell better than Sony's, both numbers are quite horrid. PSP actually sold really well, to my memory.

3DS hit 15mil in less than 3 years on the market (japan). How is that horrid #s?

I think he's talking more about how it's doing now rather than it's performance post price cut.


but here is the thing i dont understand. It hasn't gotten a price cut in 2 years and 7 months + it got1 new model (2012 summer), and it sold 15mil in almost 3 years. Now its declined YoY but hasn't done extraordinary already? you cant get much more better than that.

If it does lets say 2.5mil this year in japan, many people will post all this negativity about its doing terrible/horrid numbers which in why i look at total sales and dont understand!

Sometimes people's expectations are so high its complete non sense. Looking at Wii/DS/PSP sales and alot of people expect the next installments to do the same/better when they were top peak of the gaming industry. PSP/DS especially sold fantastic, it was obvious 3DS/PSPwoould never sell close to them.

If 3DS stop selling today its still an amazing feat for it to sell 15mil. Also vita is expecte to be up YoY. Some people compare YoY sales to make the vita look good/ 3DS to look bad which is just silly. Its the same with WiiU wen it goes up YoY trying to compare to make it look good.


You make good points here tbone. And here's another thing, comparing the 3ds to ds and saying it's kind of a failure for not matching it, is like saying the ps3 is a failure for not matching the ps2.  It doesn't make sence. And another thing people seem to be forgetting, at $250, the 3ds sold what, 5 million before the price cut worldwide? That's actually impressive to me. At $250, it was still selling better, on average, than the vita ever has in Japan. It only dropped to very low levels after Nintendo announced the price cut and sat on it for weeks before actually dropping the price. It's impressive that they still sold 10k per week before the price it, considering those people knew it would be cheaper in a matter of weeks/days....