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StarDoor said:
friendlyfamine said:

With only a few months worth of data. You're forgetting about the word "maintenance" that I mentioned. The 3DS and Switch are very close in NPD sales when you look at the launch. It's not like the Switch is selling 2 million more, and is definitely going to outsell it. It's absolutely unknown if the Switch will outsell the 3DS, and right now stock issues are looking to prevent that. The stock issues are "uninvestigated" as it hasn't been confirmed by Nintendo as to why they are having stock issues. Only speculation and reports from news sites that aren't necessarily true, or could just be excuses. Also, refer back to my first comment, most of the multiple 10 million sellers on the 3DS were just barely 10 million sellers, only Pokemon and Mario proved to sell that much. You can't really compare this to the 3DS when prices of games are involved, and totally different games are being concerned, like a main Zelda and Splatoon- selling over 10 million.

Very close?! What the hell are you smoking?

3DS March 2011: 398k

3DS April 2011: 194k

3DS May 2011: 97k

Switch March 2017: 906k

Switch April 2017: 280k

Switch May 2017: ~190k

It's not close at all. The 3DS is 700k behind after three months and didn't even reach the Switch's first month until August!

Uh, the 2012 NPD after the price drop, not the 2011 one where the 3DS did horribly. Comparing the 3DS launch isn't really fair at all.