UK Charts Week Ending 14 February 2015

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tak13 said:

binary solo said:

And where did GAF get it from? So GTAV slightly overtracked on VGC over the last few weeks, but not badly over tracked.

Well that was the first time for me I believe but yes I read it wrong. Must get gooder Englandese.

Even 20K for N3DS can't be regarded as a massive shot in the arm for 3DS sales. It's a good boost and could lead to a reasonable baseline boost. But it's not going to put 3DS sales back close to its former peak. 

It's near 30k...And you better don't judge that from the UK,for obvious reasons...

I'm only talking UK here. And how can it be near 30K? If VGC HW sales are relatively accurate then previous week HW will be about 30K, 57% increase will be about 17K add ~4K to that and you get ~21K.

Also, globally speaking I doubt N3DS will completely reinvigorate 3DS sales. Japan had 3DS for a good few months in 2014, but that still didn't stop 3DS sales from going from >5M in 2013 to ~3M in 2014. And it appears 3DS has gone back to pre-N3DS levels in Japan. N3DS actually had a worse holiday period than 3DS did for 2013 in Japan. Without the N3DS boost this year Japan will be down even more. With N3DS coming out so early this year I suspect by the time we get to the holidays the demand will have gone down again and that without a price cut holiday 2015, globally, will be slightly lower than holiday 2014. 3DS might end up slightly above 10 million (so slightly more than 2014), but it won't get to 14 million (3DS's peak)