I guess that at this point they'll prolly overstock software quite a bit since it's the launch period and they'll probably expect more software demand soon. Forgot to take that into account.

Killzone 3. PS3 users buy more Killzone 3 over Crysis 2, Homefront and Bulletstorm... 360 users had only Crysis 2, Homefront and Bulletstorm.

You know in Europe we still miss Layton 4? Why launching 5 without the forth episode on shelves...and that is a DS game. The fact is that the 3DS won't have many system sellers this year, but many, many games so that even small sellers will be important to keep sales high. Right now people think "too highprice" or "no games" or "just an upgrade of DS"...but in the next months, with direct feedback, they'll change their mind and 3DS will enjoy good to great sales. After all, the remake of the best game ever is just behind the corner (obviously I'm referring to Zelda OoT) :P

Just one day sales? I know most people who preordered picked up their system on its first day, but still 1 day is different from a full week, look at Japan, in its first two days it sold pretty much 2/3 of the FW and Japan is the most frontloaded country...next week numbers should be still excellent (plus we should wait for further adjustements, like there have been for SW).

First week sales always are just 1-2-3 days (depending on region etc)

In US they'll be 6 days.

And anyway, I was not comparing 3DS launch with other consoles, just saying that FW means nothing about consoles sales. If Nintendo said that 3DS is the most preordered console ever for them, how could it possibly have a worse opening than their major consoles (DS, GB, Wii)? Only if the shipments were low, but I haven't heard of those problems in Europe like there have been in japan...

A bigger % of preorder sales compared to the grand total, maybe? It often happens with products hyped that much.

no there is another

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2780/4519384306_5cfd8e99b4_b.jpg

Nintendo expected 4 million 3DS and 15 million software shipped, not sold.

I didn't know, the various versions aren't named with version numbers and I don't follow portables enough to know it if I don't happen to read it or other people tell me, but the fact that one of the best selling portable Nintendo series is stuck at the 3rd chapter in EMEAA when 3DS is launching with the 5th chapter confirms my criticism, that is just a small part of the picture, but, IMVHO, not little significant, as if it's perfectly normal that the SW library be still small at launch of new HW, not having one of the most important titles of the library available everywhere yet doesn't look a good move to me. Many early adopters are likely to buy more SW during the initial enthusiasm, so, while the vast majority of users will buy later, a few tens thousand SW sales could be missed if the already small launch line-up hasn't all its most important titles available everywhere.