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Nintendo 3DS Sales Up 260 Percent Following Price Reduction

Nintendo sold more than 235,000 Nintendo 3DS™ portable entertainment systems in the United States in August, and the system finished as the No. 2 best-selling dedicated game system for the month, according to the NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States. About 185,000 units were sold following a price reduction on Aug. 12, an increase of more than 260 percent during the comparable 19-day time period in July.

“Consumers are responding very positively to the new suggested retail price of $169.99 for the Nintendo 3DS,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “With Star Fox 64 3D and the new Flame Red color launching tomorrow, and Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 arriving later this year, Nintendo 3DS will offer consumers cutting-edge entertainment and tremendous value this holiday season.”

Other Nintendo milestones reached in August include:

Nintendo sold more than 590,000 total hardware units in August, including more than 190,000 Wii™ systems and more than 165,000 units of the Nintendo DS™ family.

For the third month in a row, the majority of the best-selling software SKUs play on Nintendo platforms. August featured five of the top 10 and 15 of the top 20.

So far in 2011, more than 50 million units of software have been sold for Nintendo platforms.

In total, 540 million units of software have been sold for the Wii system and Nintendo DS family of systems combined.



 

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Nintendo 3DS Sales Up 260 Percent Following Price Reduction

Nintendo sold more than 235,000 Nintendo 3DS™

portable entertainment systems in the United States in August, and the system finished as the No. 2 best-selling dedicated game system for the month, according to the NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States. About 185,000 units were sold following a price reduction

on Aug. 12, an increase of more than 260 percent during the comparable 19-day time period in July.

“Consumers are responding very positively to the new suggested retail price of $169.99 for the Nintendo 3DS,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “With Star Fox 64 3D and the new Flame Red color launching tomorrow, and Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 arriving later this year, Nintendo 3DS will offer consumers cutting-edge entertainment and tremendous value this holiday season.”

Other Nintendo milestones reached in August include:

Nintendo sold more than 590,000 total hardware units in August, including more than 190,000 Wii™

systems and more than 165,000 units of the Nintendo DS™

family.
For the third month in a row, the majority of the best-selling software SKUs play on Nintendo platforms. August featured five of the top 10 and 15 of the top 20.
So far in 2011, more than 50 million units of software have been sold for Nintendo platforms.
In total, 540 million units of software have been sold for the Wii system and Nintendo DS family of systems combined.



Nsanity said:

Sony Issues NPD Statement, PS3 has Strongest Lineup of Exclusives for Holiday.

http://www.examiner.com/video-game-in-national/sony-issues-npd-statement-boasts-strongest-lineup-of-exclusives-for-holiday


Really Resistance 3, Uncharted 3, and Everybody Dance is the strongest exclusives for Americas this fall?  I know it is Sony PR, but come on.



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

If portable consoles increased YoY then they must be atleast above 500k as DS sold 510k in August 2010 according to the preview. Or am I missing something here?

 

Edit: Meh...



Nintendogamer said:
Seece said:
Nintendogamer said:
Has Pachter forgot about 3ds price cut?

I know right, no way did it only go up 45k.

Oh, and please spare me your pessimistic prediction


Even that comment pisses you off?

Seece hasn't been much fun lately.

even when i give him the chance to just throw my comments out the window he just gives me 1 liners or doesn't quote back, and i try so hard to. i'm getting discouraged.



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Well we at least know PS3 sold more then 148k as that is what it did last month.
However with the fact they have not come out saying any percentages and that they say it was supply restraint (yeah right) would lead be to believe it won't be much over the 148k.



Nintendo sold more than 235,000 Nintendo 3DS™ portable entertainment systems in the United States in August, and the system finished as the No. 2 best-selling dedicated game system for the month,

First place for 360 confirmed, and PS3 under 235k



 

So PS3 between 148K and 235K. I suspect it is more than 190K otherwise wouldn't Nintendo say they took the #2 and #3 spots?



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

More than a little disappointing for 3DS, but at least it's not as bad as Pachter suggested...
What's bothering me right now, though, is that, if portables are up YOY, the PSP will have had to sell nearly 200k units. Surely someone would've mentioned it if that happened?



 

“These are my principles; if you don’t like them, I have others.” – Groucho Marx

So this month is the last month of the offer for a free 360 with the purchase of a PC.