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

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RolStoppable said:

zorg1000 said:

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You are partially right, 3DS did get 3D Mario, Mario Kart & Monster Hunter in holiday 2011 and in 2012 it had a more steady flow of games so sales would have increased regardless, they just wouldnt have increased as much without the price cut and revision.

3DS sold 9.78 million in 2011+2012 and Switch will be around 6.8 million in 2017+2018. Without the year 1 price cut and year 2 revision, 3DS would probably be pretty similar to Switch.

Didn't the 3DS miss its fiscal year forecast despite the price cut? IIRC it was 15m and ended up in the 13-14m range. Doesn't look like premature panic, but an absolutely necessary measure.

For Japan specifically, the 3DS had a baseline in the low 20k before the price cut in August 2011. Switch only had its pre-Spatoon 2 baseline of ~25k in 2017 because of supply constraints. I do not believe that the 3DS would have sold as much as Switch (~6.8m) without price cut and revision, because it was already on pace for much lower sales and had an inferior first party release schedule.

Price cut was needed but did it have to be so big? 

 

The 3DS getting monster Hunter off psp and then Vita was huge. That imo was a major factor for it's overall success.