3DS sales up over 200 per cent in UK YoY

[Ryng]

Pineapple said:

Ryng_Tolu said:
I don't trusth VGC sales, and i'm pretty sure 3DS is heavy overtracked in weekly sales.

Just my guess, i think 2/3k for UK market last year is way more likely, which probabily is 5k-10k this year. Still very good, if we considering that France and Germany are most likely bigger, and with Italy, Spain ecc it could be 40-50k weekly sales.

We know that the total 3DS shipments for FY2015-16 were 6.79 million, of which non-Americas/Japan were 2.18 million (https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2016/160427e.pdf). For that period, VGChartz has sold sales for Europe at 1.915 million.

The VGChartz numbers don't include the rest of the world, but for the 3DS, that's been relatively small.

In other words, there isn't a real possibility of last year's European sales being horribly wrong.

Further, the 3DS had weekly sales roughly 30k for most of last year in Europe. That's not very disputable, as  it's the only way to get to Nintendo's "other" number of 2.18 million. The UK accounting for less than 10% of Europe's hardware sales is extremely unlikely, and would to my knowledge be virtually unprecedented for any console.

first, you are talking about yearly sales, while i talk about a single week of last year. VGC lots of times can have yearly sales """"""""similar"""""""", but the period weekly/monthly are by far really wrong, like for PS4, yearly sales are not that bad, the problem is how bad is the track into the year.

Second, those are sell in numbers, not sold through, which are literally two difference things.

Third, even if Europe sales are overall correct, this doesn't mean UK sales are.