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Faxanadu on 25 August 2012

I think he is right



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KungKras on 25 August 2012

And if they improved battery, it would do even better. 5 hours of battery is crazy, it's like Lynx and Game Gear level.



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ninetailschris on 25 August 2012

3DS will take over the world when they produce the next Pokemon/NintenDogs/ basically killer ap.

Wii-U is coming and will take over the market.

I will predict

3ds: 27 million by the end of the year at least.

Wii-U Spring march 25: 6-8 million.

Japan market share 75-80 percent.

Usa: 50-55 percent

Europe: 52 Percent.

Nintendo is working hard at work for games in 2013 that's when retro will show there game on nintendo direct because e3 is irrelevant.

Get on the hype train or your body will not be ready.



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Deoz on 25 August 2012

It show's that nintendo has more recognized and important Ips.



DieAppleDie on 25 August 2012

the 3DS can hit 100m and maybe beyond....
can that be considered healthy? lol

just gimme next gen Pokemon Nintendo



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the_dengle on 25 August 2012

I'm pretty sure that "18 months to 10 mil worldwide" statistic for DS is very wrong. For starters, the Chartz have DS selling over 10 mil in 2005 alone, the end of which was about 14 months after launch.

Anyway, handheld gaming isn't dead, but it's taking a beating. 3DS is persevering. Vita is not.



TWRoO on 25 August 2012
the_dengle said:
I'm pretty sure that "18 months to 10 mil worldwide" statistic for DS is very wrong. For starters, the Chartz have DS selling over 10 mil in 2005 alone, the end of which was about 14 months after launch.

Anyway, handheld gaming isn't dead, but it's taking a beating. 3DS is persevering. Vita is not.

Yeah not sure where that came from... maybe a mistype.

By the 17th month from release (though Nintendo may count it as the 18th as they work in quarters... so releasing in November is the same as releasing in October) they had shipped 17.73 million. The nearest figure I can come up with is at that same time (end of March 2006) they had shipped almost 10 million in overseas territories (ie not Japan)



RedInker on 28 August 2012

Too true. My smartphone is game free!



Lostplanet22 on 28 August 2012
RolStoppable said:
Simply put, smartphones are Sony's problem, but not Nintendo's.


Yeah that is what I thought...but still affect 3DS sales though.   



 

freebs2 on 28 August 2012

Imo, the 3DS userbase is getting a bit different from DS userbase. The handled market is indeed shrinking, since parents, in these times re not willing to buy a person dedicted console for their childrens. On the other end the Vita is just to damn expansive and not that much appealing to most consumers.
So in the end I think 3DS has an older userbase, has kept a portion of ex NDS users while stealing some market shares to ex PSP users.