Nobody seems to remember the DS. The only thing that gave that decent sales out of the gate was the fact that it was launched near a holiday, but with an equally poor lineup

The other difference in play here was that Nintendo's sales expectations were wayyy higher, since they had confidence in the 3DS that they didn't have in the DS (recollect the whole "third pillar" thing), so Nintendo's panicking more to a slow start

No, it's to sell so much that it doesn't need a price cut so fast. And that didn't happen.

Man this 3DS hype of doomedness is soo similar to the PS3: High launch rpice, no gamez, hate, market leader prior...but all worked out and I believe it will do just fine in the long run.

To be fair to IGN, they do say toward the end that anything can happen and make a point of saying the incentives Ninty are giving are unprecedented.

What makes this slightly more amusing is that Nintendo have littered the 3DS with all the failure console's games.

Pilotwings did little for the SNES, Mario 3D Land 64, Mario Kart 2, Starfox 64 and OoT couldn't save the N64.

Good job Luigi's Mansion and Mario Kart 4, er, I mean 7 aren't too far away. Combined with Pikmin and Mario Sunshine 2 in 2012, the 3DS will be unstoppable.

We all know this but this is a pretty funny observation nonetheless. 

My prediction is that the 3DS will bounce back through a pokemon, MH, and 2D Mario game (depending on the audience a Mario Galaxy too). Unless 3DS has at LEAST 2 pokemon games, I do not see it passing 110 million, not a chance in hell. If there are 2 pokemon games released spaced apart enough, that alone will push it.

Well we all know IGN never lies..

Fanboys = easiest source for lots of hits. Next!

Well I think for some people doomedz is selling worse that 3DS. Just like PS3 is perpetually doomedz because it hasn't done PS2 numbers. 3Ds seems not to be capable of putting up DS numbers in its lifetime, but it can come close to GBA, and I'm confident it will outsell PSP lifetime.

The big difference with 3DS and 2 of the 3 comparisons is that 3DS has no current gen competition. So people looking at moving into the next gen of handheld console only have one choice at present. The question is do people think there's a big enough difference between DS and 3DS to make the switch? Is 3DS competing with current gen handheld consoles? On current weekly sales you'd have to say DS and 3DS are in direct competition, as is PSP. I think struggling to differentiate from last gen devices is the main issue. To outward appearance and the general masses the only difference between 3DS and DS is the 3D slider, and that doesn't seem to be as big a selling point as perhaps was hoped.

I think Nintendo realised there wasn't enough perceived differentiation to warrant such a big price difference, so they had to bring the price closer to current DS and maybe people will think it's worth buying 3DS over DS.

For me personally if I was thinking of buying a Ninty handheld the launch price of 3DS would steer me towards DS, because even having more knowledge of what technically differentiates DS and 3DS I still see DS as the better value product. But after 32% comes off 3DS I think I'd be more inclined to get 3DS.

I think 3DS pricecut will be an exception to the historical pattern.