Japan Sales Week 51 Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - December 17-23, 2018

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tak13 said:

It's amusing to see people that celebrate so much on npd threads about how much the home and handheld console NS outpaces the handheld console 3ds in the USA, while here they give prominence only to profitability...
Just admit it, ns has a problem in Japan, which in the long run will become more and more visible.
I had warned people to not expect more than 300k in the biggest week for sales, ns simply doesn't have that potential.
Some Japanese people haven't embraced the hybrid nature of ns and the value that this actuality offers unlike the majority of consumers in the west, they view it as an expensive handheld-only console.
Hence, you can't expect 3ds level weekly sales, smash bros just inflated the sales of the previous recent weeks ( you ignored the fact that it was released in the first week of holidays and let that to lead you to wrong conclusions).
Ns lite will come to the rescue!

Nope, not at all. Not even in the slightest!

3DS needed a 70$ pricecut to sell, even in Japan where handhelds flourish. And after it's 2 first years, 3DS sales started to tank considerably.

While I don't think Switch will be able to keep up with the 3DS next year, I'm very positive it will outsell every year after that one, crawling closer and closer to the 3DS total sales. It's a Marathon, not a sprint.