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Forums - Nintendo - Will there be 3DS shortages in Japan later this year? Sales will be at holiday levels for 4 months straight!!!!!

Soundwave said:
spurgeonryan said:
RolStoppable said:
spurgeonryan said:
In fact, because of this, 3DS to stay ahead of the DS and never look back. That is how amazing this holiday is going to be.

Maybe.

Yeah, maybe.

Except that the 3DS has already fallen behind the DS and will never catch up, unless third parties make it their system of choice which would grant the 3DS a much better and longer tail end than the DS.

Anyway, I am not convinced that sales will be at holiday levels for four months straight. In Japan the holiday spike only starts to occur in December, so that's basically two months between Pokémon and the holidays.

I have decided that the 3DS will be the handheld of choice, since the Vita is already totally gone from some Walmarts. I was going to take a picture, but my cell phone was full some how. This year will change Americas mind for good. Kids will forget that they even have a ipad and galaxy, and whatever else spoiled American Children get these days because they forgot how to actually play and have an imagination.

 

Then 3DS will stay ahead of the DS. Pokemon in America and Smash for the older gamers, then Monster Hunter/smash/Pokemon in Japan.


Pretty sure 3DS has fallen well behind already. People forget the DS was crushing 100k+ a week in Japan like clockwork with Brain Training/NSMB starting in 2006 and never looked back.

What do you mean "never looked back", 2006 was its peak year by far, in 2006 it sold like 8.5 million, in 2008 it sold 4.2,