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Forums - Sales - July 2013 NPD Thread! - 3DS: 150k, 360: 107k, PS3: 79k

Carl on 15 August 2013

Not to worry chaps, PSVita Pets will save the day.



                            

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Soleron on 15 August 2013

Haven't consoles selling at these levels historically been cancelled?



ethomaz on 15 August 2013
Carl2291 said:
Not to worry chaps, PSVita Pets will save the day.

At least in Japan it will give a good boost for Vita.



C-M-D on 15 August 2013
Nsanity said:
Vita < 17k < Wii U < DS < 32k < Wii < 36k

How depressing...



Carl on 15 August 2013
Soleron said:
Haven't consoles selling at these levels historically been cancelled?


Well. Yes. But the difference is usually that these numbers are hit at the arse-end of the generation (for the said console).

Gamecube didnt drop below 30k until 2007, over 5 Years after launch.



                            

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Soundwave on 15 August 2013
Carl2291 said:
Soundwave said:

I'm pretty sure the 3DS is well below the GBA in North America too for the same time frame. In North America for equivalent time frames it is often below the PSP too.

For example, July 2007 (2 years + 4 months for PSP) vs. July 2013 (2 years + 4 months for 3DS) is 214k for the PSP vs. 141k for the 3DS.

So it's having some trouble even keeping pace with the PSP in North America month to month. Japan is what keeps the 3DS beasting.


Its quite amazing how phones and tablets came out of nowhere and shit all over the dedicated gaming handheld.

At least the 3DS at least, is still posting healthy software and hardware numbers. There is still room for at least 1 handheld gaming device.

Edit - Just seen a post on GAF with the totals after 29 Months.

GBA was at 16.3 Million
DS was at 10.35 Million
3DS is at 8.85 Million
PSP was at 8.14 Million

That GBA number is incredible.

I didn't actually have the GBA number, but yeah it's good to see. The DS gap is going to explode though, this is the time in its life cycle where the DS started doing 400-500k a month, so every month that DS-3DS gap is going to widen significantly.



Carl on 15 August 2013

Wario - 7300
Minecraft - 260,000 (!!!!!!)
The Last of Us - 170,000
Animal Crossing - 130,000



                            

the_dengle on 15 August 2013
Soundwave said:

I didn't actually have the GBA number, but yeah it's good to see. The DS gap is going to explode though, this is the time in its life cycle where the DS started doing 400-500k a month, so every month that DS-3DS gap is going to widen significantly.

I've read this a lot of times by now. 500k a month is cute. What's going to happen this December when the 3DS is averaging over a million per week?



Nsanity on 15 August 2013

Minecraft massively undertracked.



Soundwave on 15 August 2013
the_dengle said:
Soundwave said:

I didn't actually have the GBA number, but yeah it's good to see. The DS gap is going to explode though, this is the time in its life cycle where the DS started doing 400-500k a month, so every month that DS-3DS gap is going to widen significantly.

I've read this a lot of times by now. 500k a month is cute. What's going to happen this December when the 3DS is averaging over a million per week?


DS will CRUSH 3DS' for the equivalent holiday, lol, not all the Pokemon games in the world is gonna stop that.