We buy them to gather dust. Why do you think so many people claim as such?

I bought mine to gather dust, but so far it's terrible at it. I keep picking it up and opening it and turning it on and stuff, carrying it around with me, playing games all the time. I can't get any dust to build up on it at all. I'm very dissatisfied with it.

NSMB2 and 3DSXL in a couple weeks disagree with you

That's a silly assumption. 

The 3DS, in total, sold 13.25mil last year, the PS3 14.12 and the Wii 11.56.

Currently, the 3DS is at 5mil. Assuming a minimum of 1mil for 4 weeks in December, and 500k each week for November, you've got another 6mil already. So we're at 11mil now. 

So we need to find 2.25mil between new and October 31st. That's... 14 weeks (?). That would mean the 3DS would have to average out around 150k each week until October 31st to reach last year's sales. Which it will do easily. And when you include the fact some weeks (MH4 week), the 3DS will be closer to 2mil, I'd say the better question is if it can hit 20mil.

The PS3 is at 4.8mil, but is dropping away YoY significantly. Assuming 750k for December, and 400k for November (PS3 has the weakest holiday), the PS3 would have to sell around 5mil between now and October 31st, or around 320k a week. That's not happening. Even the most positive would put the PS3 at around 10-11mil this year.

The Wii sits at 2.4mil. Assuming it can reach, or be near, 100mil this year, that'd leave the WiiU to sell 5mil this year. Assuming an early November launch, that'd mean the WiiU would have to sell around 6-700k a week, on average, to the end of the year. That should be pretty simple, but the way the Wii is dropping off, this is the most likely of your three scenarios.

The PSVita will, of course, shoot up, but it's sold 2mil this year, and the 3DS is outselling it around 3:1, before any big games/redesigns. I'd imagine the 3DS will have outsold the Vita at the end of the year by around 2:1, at least. So the best case is 3DS at 19mil, PSV at 8mil. Worst case is 3DS at 16mil, PSV at 5mil.

So the sales forum is slightly more active then I thought.

Anyways all my predictions were made from the top of my head :).

I was not aware 3DS did 5mill already, I do believe we are overtracking though. With 3DS hardware design I think the 3DS can get to 13.25m(also thought it sold 14m last year).

PS3 has possible super slim which may or may not boost sales by a lot. It is only 500k below last year, I think with super slim it can easily catch up to that.

Wii and Wii U is a wild card.

PS vita is a wild card.

Why in the world would you expect that?

EDIT: Never mind. But it won't sell less.

You'd think the PSV is in its 7th year with those sales. Sony need to do something by the end of the year because I don't think a CoD spinoff will do the trick.

I imagine 3DS and PS3 sales will average 200k once the XL and new PS3 SKUs come out.

yea that aint gonna happen. ps3 might even sell 14 million again this year. its definately possible.

But this holiday season, there will be a new player in town so I think the other consoles sales WILL suffer to a certain degree. How much that will be, I don't know. We'll see.

PS3 new slim at $199 will rule the world yet again this xmas!!!