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Viper1 said:

The sales spike, whihc boosted many consoles, is due to a sales tax increase from the Japanesee government on April 01.   Many consumers picked up various devices to beat the increased price imposed the following days.


I'd imagine the 3DS seeing a greater-than-the-others sales spike was also due to this:

And these:

Even crap limited edition consoles (or indeed, in this case, related to games people aren't interested in) still tend to boost hardware.