d21lewis said:
DieAppleDie said: you guys have little memory the 3DS underperformed severely for like 5 months, and it was being sold at a loss, just because now its doing great doesnt mean is going to turn into a monstruous succes like the DS i will do great and make billions for Nintendo, but it will never ever match the DS in the long run |
Agreed. Me and a guy (Shokio himself, actually) got into a huge debate because I told him that the DS didn't do very well during its first year and that when the DS Lite came out, the sales exploded. So, while the 3DS was beating the DS's first year, it wouldn't be long until it fell below DS sales. We argued back and forth for a while until I agreed to disagree--and asked him to wait until Christmas.
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I do have an opinion on this, actually. I say it's too early to say it cannot beat the DS, and I have been wondering what the sales records were for the DS over the years, when was its peak years/months? I also argue to those people who say the 3DS isn't doing well that I think even if it doesn't start selling faster, if it keeps up this rate for a while it is doing better than a lot of other consoles do. It's really hard to say, though. I have high hopes for the 3DS due to the fact that there's a Luigi's Mansion game coming to the system (which is actually racking up a lot of pre-orders), a Super Smash Bros game, it hasn't seen its own traditional pokemon game yet, Contra 3D may contribute to sales as well as the Persona game that was announced to come to the 3DS at e3 2010, the slew of great looking games in Japan, and the localization of some of those games here in the USA. However, things don't always go according to plan, so it'll be hard to tell. A lot of people get these estimates wrong anyway. People were wrong about the Wii, and people were wrong about the DS. People most likely didn't expect the Gamecube to (relatively) flop.
Regardless of all this, I still think the 3DS may be able to push just as well as the DS if the cards get played correctly.