Famitsu Sales: Week 4, 2023 (16 Jan - 22 Jan)

[Norion]

TruckOSaurus said:

Norion said:

A 30-35% drop wouldn't be a very low result, for its age that wouldn't really be abnormal since the DS had a 41% drop one year and a 28% drop another year. You gotta keep in mind that 2021 was ahead of 2020 most of the time but then fell increasingly behind in the last three months and that the launch week mostly makes up for the lack of January and February in 2017. It's gonna need a significant lead to not fall behind the last few weeks of the year since its holiday sales will be far below 2017 and 2018.

Wasn't the 3DS out when the DS fell that much?

No the drop for 2011 was 77%. I'm not putting much stock into the production increase report right now since that means nothing if demand keeps going down so my expectations are a steady decline in demand till the successor late 2024. I'm not super confident it'll be under 2017 though so won't really be surprised if it ends up at about 3.6m. 

Last edited by Norion - on 28 January 2023