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Will the 3DS sell 300 million+ ?

Yes it will!!! 90 22.17%
 
No...Just no!!! 315 77.59%
 
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rakugakist on 28 January 2011

I'd also like to say that $249 is a ridiculous price for this device.  It'll hurt the sales.  They better lower the price early.  It'll obviously sell out at launch, but I just can't see parents dropping $249 on this when they could just spend $130 less and buy them a DS.

I dunno, it's going to sell great, but $249 is too much for me even.

Sorry if this was mentioned.  I didn't bother sifting through the comments.

Definitely not selling 300 million though.



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Siko1989 on 28 January 2011

the average of what Nintendo Handhelds always sell is 125 million so i seriously doubt it will sell 80 million life time




Ninpanda on 29 January 2011
Immortal said:

Can't believe how much some of you wish it would fail, :P. Under DS, really? Save for the inexistent threat that is the iOS device family, nothing indicates that it'll do less than DS.

This is like DS, except with awesome features, third party support and the world's largest userbase on its back. And competition (not iOS, NGP) that isn't nearly as strong as before.

...300m is a really funny joke, though. More like 200-225m.

Sit down, kid, and let me tell you a story.

*Ahem*

A company, confident after breaking numerous records, and creating the best-selling video game system of all time, announces a new gaming device. Hardcore gamers left and right begin proclaiming it to be a raging success, that will utterly destroy it's competition.

And why not? It's just like it's massively successful predecessor, after all. It has third-party support, and the world's largest user-base on it's back. It also has awesome features, that nobody else in the market has. What could go wrong?

Nintendo and the 3DS? No. I'm talking about Sony and the Playstation 3.

(Semi-stolen from Metallicube's sig.)



yum123 on 29 January 2011

yea if it was free it would



rutea7 on 29 January 2011
dunno001 said:
Zlejedi said:

6 bilions - it will be first portable device owned by every human on earth

I think there are still a few countries in Africa where they couldn't afford it.


Oprah will give them 3DS's confirmed?



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pacman91 on 29 January 2011

Believable...Kim Jong Il will be responsible for 200 million of these sales.  He'll build a super super computer to fire his nukes...in 3D!



pacman91 on 29 January 2011
Immortal said:
Chibi.V.29 said:
Immortal said:

Can't believe how much some of you wish it would fail, :P. Under DS, really? Save for the inexistent threat that is the iOS device family, nothing indicates that it'll do less than DS.

This is like DS, except with awesome features, third party support and the world's largest userbase on its back. And competition (not iOS, NGP) that isn't nearly as strong as before.

...300m is a really funny joke, though. More like 200-225m.


Whilst there is nothing to say it will sell less. there is nothing to say it will sell more ;D And what statistics do you have to say the NGP wont outsell it? im not saying it will. but we have all been proven wrong before that basing sales on the success of past events doesnt work. 

Read the bolded.

And, mind you, NGP, from what we know of it, doesn't even do something new. All other times when a new leader has arisen, there's been a reason. NES - Harsh  publishing regulations, collapsing industry. (Genesis, if it counts, released early and had what I'd say was the most effective marketing in the history video gaming, not to mention Sonic) PS1 - Optical media, "mature" games. Wii - "Casual" games.

The NGP is doing nothing radical and, historically, a generation only becomes more exaggerated than the last unless something drastic is done to prevent it. And I'm being nice in this argument by allowing home consoles because, in handhelds, the only rule that has gone so far is "Nintendo wins", simple as that.

Hey

WOAH 

HEY

NO 

Snes won that war in the end.

That is all.



Christian973 on 29 January 2011
rakugakist said:

I'd also like to say that $249 is a ridiculous price for this device.  It'll hurt the sales.  They better lower the price early.  It'll obviously sell out at launch, but I just can't see parents dropping $249 on this when they could just spend $130 less and buy them a DS.

I dunno, it's going to sell great, but $249 is too much for me even.

Sorry if this was mentioned.  I didn't bother sifting through the comments.

Definitely not selling 300 million though.


Maybe Nintendo's plan is to extend DS sales even further :) Once Nintendo captures the hardcore with the 3DS launch price, it'll drop it's price and then "It will begin".



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Joelcool7 on 29 January 2011

Am I the only one who sees this thread as wrong?

No offence but calling a user less intelligent then the rest of VGChartz is sort of a low blow, especially since he isn't present to defend himself

Michael Pachter makes worse predictions every day and he is a proffesional analyst who gets paid to advise people on where to spend their money. Well maybe he's a bad example cuz we all make fun of him but he is not a member of VGChartz (That I know of).

I think attacking another users intelligence by creating a thread to poke fun at his prediction is sort of low.

Am I the only one who thinks its wrong to try and make another user look like an idiot and have fun at his expense? If Chibi had something to say he should have replied in the thread these comments were made. Even if he wanted people's real opinion on whether we think it could sell 300-mill then he shouldn't have named the user in the post.



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OneTwoThree on 29 January 2011

Why so modest? It will sell 800 Million, of course.