LuckyTrouble on 29 September 2015
| benji232 said: 3DS sales have been extremely disappointing in the west without even comparing it to the DS. I'm comparing it to the original Gameboy and the Gameboy Advance. Handheld sales for Nintendo in the west are a shell of it's formerself. And in general, 3DS sales aren't anywhere near amazing. They are "Okay" at best. It's definitely an underperformer. |
This.
The 3DS isn't a failure, but there is no way sales have met expectations. As I've pointed out before, its sales are currently the weakest by a fairly substantial margin of any of the Nintendo handheld families. The declining handheld sales combined with the failure console sales are the major reason why the NX as a hybrid console is even plausible. It would be a move to try to capitalize on what's left of the handheld fan base to reinvigorate the home console.
