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Asriel on 31 January 2017
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tak13 said:
Asriel said:
What were 3DS sales expectations for the current financial year? I've been trying to dig them up but haven't found them yet.

7.2m...

 

It's at 6.45m between April-December...

 

Only 750k to hit it!

Easy! Nintendo had shipped 1m in last year's FYQ4...

We also have to take into account that 3DS is extremely hard to be found in NA since early December, way higher demand than the expected ( Pokemon go+Sun and Moon huge effect )... To be precise, higher demand than the number of units that Nintendo had produced as of December....

I meant the original target, from the start of the financial year. Having finally found it on Nintendo's website, the original estimation for 3DS in FY16/17 was 5 million units, which makes the Pokemon boost even more impressive. Nearly a 50% increase on their original hardware target, plus a massive increase of 'legacy' software (Pokemon X/Y, OR/AS, Mario Kart 7) in the Western market. It may indicate that if Nintendo can keep 3DS chugging alongside Switch as a budget offering, there's a little room for growth in Western markets yet.

EDIT: I see other people have pointed out the original shipment figures and the subsequent increases in this year's estimate.