Not gonna lie too I felt like the 3DS was way less popular than how much it sold. 75 Million seems like a crazy high number for me for a console that I felt like barely anyone talked about like that, and I didn't see many people own them even kids, and on the internet I felt like the 3DS felt under the radar the entire generation with not much hype surrounding it. Stuff like the GBA felt way more popular but only sold 6M more which is crazy to me.
I think I felt this way mainly because the 3DS while it sold alot, I felt like the people who brought it didn't play it that much and ended up being a pretty bug dust collector for a good amount of people. The low software attach rate for the 3DS supports this idea. From what I've seen the only people I've seen get the 3DS were little kids who got over it really quickly once they got an IPad. I also feel like since the 3DS was so cheap for most of its life to the point where you had a bunch of more casual gamers who purchased it as an impulse buy instead of a console they truly cared about, just to play 1 or 2 games they were interested in but not really dedicate that much time towards it, plus the amount of the same people who brought multiple different models probably inflated the sales as well.
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