New Nintendo 3ds XL... selling better than expected?

[hunter_alien]

zorg1000 said:

binary solo said:
In the USA possibly yes. But in the UK it only gave 3DS a 57% boost, which is not much for a hardware refresh in the grand scheme of things. And if that lead to a selling out in the UK then that would mean undersupply, which would probably mean selling better than expected, but in this case better than expected would not necessarily mean selling very well in an absolute sense.

I'm sure Nintendo through it supplied the USA adequately for projected demand. As USA is a reasonably strong country for 3DS I would think the supply into the USA would be good enough that a nation-wide sell out means very good sales.

I thought the 57% increase was for total hardware not just 3DS

Exactly.

With 235k sales boost in Japan, alligned launch will be above 500k on a global scale IMO.

In the UK  a 57% total hardware increase based mostly on the N3DS means it will do ~20k there (based on the 31k total hw sales of the last available week according to VGC).

Seeing that in mainland European countries 3DS sales is are on par with the UK (Germany) or larger (France) a HW boost of 100k+ is not out of question, tough I wouldent be surprised if weekly sales in Others for the 3DS will be in the 150k+ region. Add in a 100k+ guaranteed opening in the US (tough it will probably be in the 150k region as well, if not more) and you have a pretty healthy launch.

All in all I think this will be a pretty good example why the dedicated handheld death scenarios will once again fall flat on their face. When you have a handheld system launched 4 years ago, doing 1 million+ in its first month of availability, you know that they are not going the way of the dodo, anytime soon