| the_dengle said: I'd like to thank the users in the first couple of pages who sensationalized a YOY decline for a console in its fourth November, for ultimately causing it to be brought to light that said decline is one of 3%. Now it is time for my friendly, weekly reminder that the DS was down massively YOY in 2008, despite the launch of the DSi. And an extra reminder this week that when all is said and done, the 3DS will be one of the top 5 best-selling consoles of all time in Japan. With that in mind, I humbly suggest that concerns over 3DS hardware sales be taken to more appropriate threads, such as the Weekly Global Hardware Sales and NPD threads. Because constantly criticizing the 3DS for not doing good enough at 80k while giving every other console a pat on the back for selling 1/8th that amount each week is getting a bit tiresome. |
I think the consensus is that pretty much everything is doing really poorly in Japan (besides the 3DS, actually). And the discussion is highly relevant seeing the massive changes the Japanese market has undergone in the past decade or so. Comparing new devices to old ones and new markets to old ones is more or less the only way to gauge how things are holding up.
And regardless of your examples with the DSi; there is no denying that dedicated handhelds are plummeting compared to the 7th gen. How Japanese sales threads are inappropriate for this subject when Japan is the last bastion for decent handheld sales and currently heading into more and more mobile-oriented territory is beyond me.
