VGKing said:
Yes. Those. Horrible sales. 3DS is selling below the PS3 in America..almost half to be more precise. 3DS should be obliterating the PS3, it is not only much cheaper, but it is NEWER, it is PORTABLE and it supposedly has great games.
|
Psh. It's having a bad quarter. Not surprising given its lackluster Holiday lineup. 3DS has passed 8 million hardware sales in the US weeks before its second anniversary; the DS didn't hit 8 million until a couple of weeks after its second anniversary. That's December 2006 for those keeping track, well after the DS Lite and New Super Mario Bros launches, and let me remind everyone that the Lite sold at $120.
Software is even better, as the 3DS is also tracking ahead of the DS in that department in America -- without factoring digital sales into the equation. Not only digital sales of retail titles (which are probably modest), but of digital-only games, which are likely quite decent.
It's no secret the 3DS is struggling in Europe. No... struggling isn't the right word. Europe is the 3DS's weakest market, especially compared to DS sales. Surely this has no direct relationship to publishers dragging their feet with European localizations for games like Fire Emblem, Harvest Moon, Brain Age, Devil Survivor Overclocked, Code of Princess, Scribblenauts, Etrian Odyssey IV, and so on.
I like "it supposedly has great games" as a reason 3DS should be outselling PS3, as though the PS3 did not also "supposedly" have great games.