| bonzobanana said: Looking at this weeks hardware the Vita is doing about 1/4 of 3DS business overall and 1/2 of the business compared to 3DS in Europe. It's still surely going to sell in the millions this year, barely i guess. Despite Europe as a whole being a bigger market than the US we take half as many Switches it seems. I can't see Nintendo beating Sony especially with the rumoured PS4 price drop coming. I would of thought it would be a comfortable win for Sony but again I'd like to see how the Switch sells after lets say 6m worldwide. It could maintain momentum or drop significantly. |
https://www.polygon.com/2016/12/19/14006908/where-to-buy-a-nintendo-3ds Late December...
;) Scarcity...
Also, Nintendo tried to fix the stock issues with release of pikachu new 3ds xl edition in February 24th, as a result mom growth of almost 80% according to npd ( with just one day in february npd, vgc missed that like they didn't know that this is being released at all ), that thing sold out quickly though...
You can read the polygon article or a recent comment of mine ( http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8400944 ) about the cause of that situation!
By the way, I haven't noted in my comment that maybe New 2ds xl is another reason why Nintendo hasn't replenished the shelves with a sufficient amount of units all that time.
New 2ds xl is a New 3ds xl without the 3D and better design, more durable and lightweight for 50$ less plus that it includes an ac adapter unlike new 3ds xl, you can guess what that means for New 3ds xl...
USA is craving for a 3DS....
P.s Maybe 3ds faces the same problem in EU too ( I have seen many complaints from europeans on gaf ) , vgc weekly relatively low sales ( for 3DS standards ) might be a proof, unless it's just an undertracking...
