zorg1000 said:
Soundwave said:
The split for 3DS is 37.5 mill outside of Japan vs. 20 mill for Japan (roughly).
That's a monumental drop off from the DS and GBA which huge numbers in the West. GBA alone sold almost 42 million in just the Americas and that was with abbreviated life cycle too.
And likely there will be continued erosion of Nintendo's portable market in the West, the 3DS benefitted from launching just before cheapo tablets (such that a kid can have their own) started flooding the market. In 2011, all you could really get was an iPad, and an iPad was like $500, not too many 8-year-olds with that, but today you can get a kid a 7 or 8 inch tablet for under $100 that they can play touch games and watch cartoons on to their heart's content.
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I know its a large drop off from previous generations, but 40+ million when all is said and done is not a bad number in itself. Lifetime 3DS sales will probably be something like 23-24m in Japan, 22 million in Americas, 20 million in others so a relatively even split per region.
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The bigger question is where is this market going and its been declining hard in the Americas and Europe, the second half of the 3DS cycle has not been strong in the West hardware sales wise. NX won't have the benefit of smartphones/tablets still being a relative luxury item for adults-mostly when it launches like the 3DS did.
