| PAOerfulone said: The thing to remember with the DS and 3DS is the different circumstances and times of when they were released. 2006 was when handheld gaming was at its peak in Japan. The DS was selling monstrous numbers while the PSP was selling respectably well and on the rise. The DS had its peak year over there with around 8.4 million units sold; And then in 2007, it sold another 7.2 million units in Japan. No other system has come even remotely close those levels ever since, not even the 3DS, which peaked at a little less then 5.5 million units in 2012, the same year the 3DS XL and Animal Crossing: New Leaf came out. We've gone 12 years without a system reaching even 6 million units sold in Japan. The biggest culprit in that, by far, is the rise of the smartphone/mobile market which has led to the decline of the dedicated handheld market. Because of that, we are never going to see a system reach those baselines and levels of sales in Japan. It's never going to happen again. I expect the Switch Lite to raise the baseline, but not to THOSE levels. |
That's depressing
