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tak13 on 14 April 2017
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Dulfite said:
Soundwave said:
Lets also put some context into the "3DS is selling well" ... it's shipping like 6 million a year. That's not exactly anything to throw a party over. It's doing ok, "ok" like a 75 year old that's still able to walk around and do stuff, yeah great, but it's not exactly lifting any heavy weight.

Yea but production costs I'm sure are at an all time low for the 3ds, making them make more profit per sale, meaning they don't have to sell as much as say the first year. I'm curious if someone did a profit x number sold comparison, year by year, what it has looked like this past year, but I suppose no one can do that due to Nintendo not really telling us these days how much profit they are selling 3ds at.

Soundwave has made a mistake...

3DS shipped 7.1m in 2014 ( New 3ds xl in Japan/ASIA/OCEANIA ) , 7.5m in 2015 ( New 3dsl xl release in the west ) and 7.4m in 2016 ( Pokemon go+Pokemon sun +moon ) while it was anticipated to sell 5m in 2016 but Nintendo didn't expected the pokemon go effect and later the Pokemon S/M effect boosted by the super popular mobile game...

3DS has an exceptional sales stability since 2014.

3DS sold more in 2016 ( 5th-6th  year with the switch on the way ) than in 2014 and close to 2015 when it had hardware revision release! That's insignificant?

( Calendar years )