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tak13 on 29 March 2017
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3DS hold... O_O

23k-43k ( MHxx 1ST WEEK ) -39K ( MHxx 2ND WEEK ) with switch having been released!

YTD
400K VS 390K, YOY UP SO FAR!

Even so... Switch because of its nature and its price must not be seemed as 3DS successor too by the majority yet!
I guess that if switch gets the handheld console ips, a considerable price cut or a more portable ( affordable ) switch, and maybe cease of 3DS support by Nintendo, 3DS would die, ( exluding the 2DS for obvious reasons ).
Unlike in the west, In japan when a console has a successor, the predecessor sales experiences a steep drop...

DS release didn't affected gba sales a lot in the west, but in Japan it vanished it!
Nintendo was saying that ds wasn't a successor to 3ds, despite the BC and the not big difference in their prices, people embraced that statement, yet again DS slayed GBA in Japan.
In the west the slimmer, smaller and more close to gba price, ds lite, which was released after two years, murdered it.

Apropos, New 3ds xl Is mostly the responsible for that weekly growth with some help from the cheap 2DS which brings people on the platform due to its great affordability, who otherwise wouldn't become owners of a 3DS
That increasement thanks to MH XX, must be consumers who upgrade their old 3DS XL ( it's the 5th MH game of 3DS and 3DS has aged ) , since MH games run much better on NEW 3ds!
Hence 3DS has still significant potential, I wonder if Nintendo has some exclusive games and a price reduction for the still fully priced new 3ds xl on the way.
GBC which for Nintendo was a revision ( well tecnlogically wasn't a massive leap over GB ) had its own vast game library and reinvigorated GB hardware sales.