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Kaizar on 20 April 2013
Herolink7 said:
Kaizar said:
curl-6 said:
Kaizar said:
curl-6 said:
The 3DS is on fire right now, and with so many heavy hitters to come this year, its going to be an absolute monster this holiday season. And this from a system that at one point was labelled "doomed." It goes to show, never judge a system by its opening.


It sold more its first month then any other video game system ever has. Same goes for first 6 months & first 12 month sales.

And the Wii U sold more in its first month then almost any home console, but of course the Wii sold even more it's first month.

I think the first 1 month sales say a lot, and same goes for first 6 month sales, and first 12 month sales & first 18 month sales & first 2 years sales.

3DS sales before its price cut were below expectations, hence the reason for the cut itself, and Wii U sales at the moment are pretty dismal. The 3DS exploded once it got compelling software though, and Wii U should show improvement once the big hitters arrive also.

It was below expectation, but above all other gaming systems sales for same period. And that's before price cut.

But yeah, software is all that matters to most of us western gamers, luckily for Nintendo.


Where in the world are you getting that from? 3DS was not the best selling system at any point in any region within the first year, except for Japan. Same for Wii U in first month sales.

Also, you have ridiculously high expectations for Luigi's Mansion. 10m lifetime? Cmon dude. Just be glad that it is selling reasonably well.

3DS NA sales this week is probably just a case of VGC making up for horribly undertaking it these past few months.


Global sales, for first 1 month & first 12 months.



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Kaizar on 20 April 2013
Yakuzaice said:
Kaizar said:

It sold more its first month then any other video game system ever has. Same goes for first 6 months & first 12 month sales.

And the Wii U sold more in its first month then almost any home console, but of course the Wii sold even more it's first month.

I think the first 1 month sales say a lot, and same goes for first 6 month sales, and first 12 month sales & first 18 month sales & first 2 years sales.

Assuming we are talking US sales, very little of this post is true.  The first month of the 3DS was below many other systems.  The Gamecube sold more, the Wii U, the Wii, PS2, Xbox, PSP, DS, GBA, maybe others.  As for 6 and 12 months, at 6 months it was behind the Wii, PS2, PS3, 360, Xbox, GBA, Gamecube, N64, and PSP.  I'm having a tougher time finding data on older systems for 12 months, but I can at least say it is behind the Wii and GBA.

Same for the Wii U.  It was below the Wii, Gamecube, DS, and Xbox, etc.

I really don't know where you got the numbers to make those claims.  Maybe you were talking worldwide sales, but even then it wouldn't be true.


Global sales.



mrstickball on 20 April 2013

Cute. Let's compare a console that is 2 years old to consoles that are 7 years old.

Why don't we discuss this when the 3DS is 6-7 years old?



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

acdcste on 20 April 2013

Im just glad this site has adjusted the number for 3ds hardware in the us. If you take the last 2 npd adjustments they have undertracked by a total lf 310k. Is no surprise to me that this was the case and was shocked some people actually thought that the mid 20k numbers were accurate.



Herolink7 on 20 April 2013
Kaizar said:
Herolink7 said:
Kaizar said:
curl-6 said:
Kaizar said:
curl-6 said:
The 3DS is on fire right now, and with so many heavy hitters to come this year, its going to be an absolute monster this holiday season. And this from a system that at one point was labelled "doomed." It goes to show, never judge a system by its opening.


It sold more its first month then any other video game system ever has. Same goes for first 6 months & first 12 month sales.

And the Wii U sold more in its first month then almost any home console, but of course the Wii sold even more it's first month.

I think the first 1 month sales say a lot, and same goes for first 6 month sales, and first 12 month sales & first 18 month sales & first 2 years sales.

3DS sales before its price cut were below expectations, hence the reason for the cut itself, and Wii U sales at the moment are pretty dismal. The 3DS exploded once it got compelling software though, and Wii U should show improvement once the big hitters arrive also.

It was below expectation, but above all other gaming systems sales for same period. And that's before price cut.

But yeah, software is all that matters to most of us western gamers, luckily for Nintendo.


Where in the world are you getting that from? 3DS was not the best selling system at any point in any region within the first year, except for Japan. Same for Wii U in first month sales.

Also, you have ridiculously high expectations for Luigi's Mansion. 10m lifetime? Cmon dude. Just be glad that it is selling reasonably well.

3DS NA sales this week is probably just a case of VGC making up for horribly undertaking it these past few months.


Global sales, for first 1 month & first 12 months.

That still isn't true. Wii was by far the faster selling system, probably PS2 and GBA as well.



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burninmylight on 20 April 2013
Troll_Whisperer said:
"So the 3DS is now doing more better in Native America & Canada & Mexcio then PS3 & 360. And Luigi Monsion Dark Moon is selling more then Bioshock infinit on PS3 & 360 combine."

This gave me a headache. Native America was funny though.


Nintendo's decision to make Luigi half-Cherokee was a brilliant one! Next game in the series: Luigi's Reservation: Casino Capers.



acdcste on 20 April 2013
pezus said:

VGChartz' tracking sucks. Why would 3DS suddenly be above 360 in USA?

Edit: And Luigi is overtracked still. 


To be fair they dont normally adjust software figures until the global weekly has gone up.



Yakuzaice on 20 April 2013
Kaizar said:

Global sales.

Like I said, that's still not true.  I'm not sure how you are defining month if we aren't talking NPD months, but let's say 4 weeks, 26 weeks, and 52 weeks for 1/6/12 months.

3DS in Japan

4 weeks: 747k
26: 1,624k
52: 5,057k

In the USA

4: 537k
26: 1,320k
52: 4,744k

in Europe

4: 555k
26: 1,427k
52: 4,168k

Total

4: 1,839k
26: 4,371k
52: 13,969k

The Wii in Japan

4: 566k
26: 2,524k
52: 3,872k

In the USA

4: 865k
26: 2,678k
52: 5,555k

In Europe

4: 697k
26: 2,022k
52: 4,471k

Total:

4: 2,128k
26: 7,224k
52: 13,898k

So the Wii led for 1 month and 6 months.  The 3DS barely edged it for 12 months, but it would be a different story at 53 weeks.  When the Wii sold 770k versus the 3DS at 152k.

Of course, that is just the Wii.  The GBA had a lead of about 1.85 million across the US and Japan after 1 year.  I can't find sell through data for Europe, but we have shipments of 4.6 million in the first four quarters in others compared to 4.91 million for the 3DS.  It's fairly safe to say the GBA sold more after 1 year.  There is also the PS2 (now these numbers are very rough) which had production shipments of 20 million after approximately 12 months after launch per region.  Now production shimpents aren't sales, but there is a very good chance it would be above the 3DS.

The long and short of it is that your original statement was not true.  And really, this is all fairly arbitrary when we are talking about different release dates.  Changing 1 month to 3 or 12 months to 15 would have a dramatic change in the results.  The 3DS and Wii U are also among the few systems which didn't suffer supply constraints around launch.



VGKing on 20 April 2013

This is hard to read. Seriously, would it kill you to use proper grammar and sentence structure?

OT: Yes 3DS sales do seem to be better this week but the previous weeks it was heavily undertracked so this didn't actually happen overnight. Of course Luigi helped, a game selling that well is bound to push systems.



Nem on 20 April 2013

Woooot?! Are you telling me that the market that is dead because of phones and tablets, in fact, is quite alive and kicking? Who ever told us these lies should be linched in public.

No really... they should. Dumbass analysts.