VG247

After saying last week that 3DS was its most pre-ordered hardware of all time, Amazon UK’s confirmed that the Nintendo handheld is 71 percent ahead of the previous record holder, PS3.

3DS, which launches in Europe on Friday and in the US on Sunday, has 71 percent more pre-orders placed at Amazon UK than PS3 PS3 did prior to its launch in early 2007, MCV reports.

The console is a giant 407 percent ahead of predecessor DSi in 2009.

“It’s unusual for a handheld console to attract this amount of excitement in the run up to launch,” said Amazon UK’s Chris Poad.

“Such high levels of interest are normally reserved for the play-at-home hardware like the ground-breaking Nintendo Wii and last year’s Microsoft Kinect.”

Hit this for full details of 3DS’s western launch this weekend.

http://www.vg247.com/2011/03/23/amazon-3ds-pre-orders-71-higher-than-ps3s/

Not suprised it's a awesome device, and I wonder many 3DS's amazon will have now, I'm hoping they'll send me a notice saying they've dispatched it to my address.

Well people pre-order much more than they did back in 2007,so I guess this isn't such a fair comparison...

Thats right "ThumbsUp" ^^

how come  u never make a pro-sony thread

Considering PS3 in last place now then one can assume that Pre-orders mean nothing for long term sales.

This is going to sell 150>  confirmed! Unlike the DS, the 3DS is starting huge.

LOl DS isn't far off 150M as we speak!

Well I was trying to say that it will sell far more than 150M, and beat DS LTD. 

Some argue it won't reach DS level which I find absurd. 

by the time 3DS is at 150M DS could have sold over 170M.