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Beuli2 on 25 March 2011
dany612 said:
Beuli2 said:

Weekly update of doom:

DS 2,538,559

3DS 749,276

 

I wonder how next weeks numbers will go. I predict it will sell about 1.400.000 (yes I know those are about the same as the supposed pre-orders)that week, but then it will start falling like a rock.

LOL Beuli2 and your dynamic ways.  With the following weeks 3DS should be around 2.2 million just with its opening. After that you expect the DS to beat 3DS on weekly basis?

Of course I don't expect it to  outsell the 3DS in the first weeks, and it WILL pass the DS in year to date sales, but in like 3 months, let's see what the numbers are. Despite saying this, I'll bet there will be a lot of people claming I'm such a noob based on first month figures.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 26 March 2011
Beuli2 said:
dany612 said:
Beuli2 said:

Weekly update of doom:

DS 2,538,559

3DS 749,276

 

I wonder how next weeks numbers will go. I predict it will sell about 1.400.000 (yes I know those are about the same as the supposed pre-orders)that week, but then it will start falling like a rock.

LOL Beuli2 and your dynamic ways.  With the following weeks 3DS should be around 2.2 million just with its opening. After that you expect the DS to beat 3DS on weekly basis?

Of course I don't expect it to  outsell the 3DS in the first weeks, and it WILL pass the DS in year to date sales, but in like 3 months, let's see what the numbers are. Despite saying this, I'll bet there will be a lot of people claming I'm such a noob based on first month figures.

You are most probably right. The same happened to PS3 and PS2: when the predecessor is still healthy and the successor is quite expensive, it's just natural their sales go this way, some people's just got a very short memory. The same didn't happen to XB360 and XB or to Wii and GC because both XB and GC were already dying when their successors were launched (and moreover, Wii was quite affordable since launch).



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abroZ on 26 March 2011

DS would have to sell tremendous amounts of hardware to catch up with 3DS launch weeks. Not going to happen.



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Beuli2 on 26 March 2011
abroZ said:

DS would have to sell tremendous amounts of hardware to catch up with 3DS launch weeks. Not going to happen.

I have a very good eyesight you know, so writing small won't make you escape from my fury.



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Beuli2 on 26 March 2011

I think this article here points very well why I think not only the 3DS will be outsold by the DS in it's first year, but how it will be a major decline in sales compared to it's predecessor:

How the handheld gaming market was born

 



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fwap on 27 March 2011

^ False advertising

You claimed that was an actual article, whereas it's just one of those Malstrom failstorms.



Alby_da_Wolf on 27 March 2011
fwap said:

^ False advertising

You claimed that was an actual article, whereas it's just one of those Malstrom failstorms.


Actually Malstrom even raises many sensible objections, but after that he almost always totally fails as for him the obvious consequence from something being wrong is that the right way can only be the one that follows his personal tastes. He's good at error detection but not correction.   



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fwap on 27 March 2011
Alby_da_Wolf said:
fwap said:

^ False advertising

You claimed that was an actual article, whereas it's just one of those Malstrom failstorms.


Actually Malstrom even raises many sensible objections, but after that he almost always totally fails as for him the obvious consequence from something being wrong is that the right way can only be the one that follows his personal tastes. He's good at error detection but not correction.   


I refuse to accept anything you say, as your last post compared the PS2/PS3 situation to the DS/3DS!



Alby_da_Wolf on 27 March 2011
fwap said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
fwap said:

^ False advertising

You claimed that was an actual article, whereas it's just one of those Malstrom failstorms.


Actually Malstrom even raises many sensible objections, but after that he almost always totally fails as for him the obvious consequence from something being wrong is that the right way can only be the one that follows his personal tastes. He's good at error detection but not correction.   


I refuse to accept anything you say, as your last post compared the PS2/PS3 situation to the DS/3DS!

Best seller behemot predecessor vs successor horribly priced at launch, aren't they similar?   



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alfredofroylan on 27 March 2011
Alby_da_Wolf said:

Best seller behemot predecessor vs successor horribly priced at launch, aren't they similar?   

PSP Go was horribly priced, the 3DS is just priced.