UK Charts Week Ending 14 February 2015

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tbone51 said:

binary solo said:

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)

Your going a little too far with N3DS, nobody except a select few are even thinking this^ If anything most people want/think that N3ds will stop the major decline from happening in 2015/2016. As of Now,it has happened in Japan and it did its job. YoY is down 10% so far which is better than wat it could of been (and its still by far the market leader there).

If anything people think it'll be close to flat YoY, or slightly down(with of course some hope of being slightly up YoY).

As of now, its too early to tell yet. Its still funny because the 3ds hasnt gotten a price cut in almost 4 years now. (yes i know 2ds, but its not a 3ds/xl)

Overall, nobody should think 3DS will go back up to/close to its peak, its mre of helping sales toward the end.

Trying to remember my 2015 predictions in the end of 2015 LTD predictions thread. Pretty sure I went for a ~10% decline in 3DS for the year, so I am saying it'll be fairly flat. If my memory serves me correctly that is. If I predicted a 30+% decline in that thread it was most likely because I was not factoring in N3DS global launch. 

I was under the impression that quite a few people thought N3DS would cause a significant increase in global 3DS sales, returning it to it's "glory days" of 14 million in a year. I appear to be wrong in that impression, if most people are predicting it will hold sales steady then we seem to be on the same page.