Even Europe?

Europe is bigger than NA.

It has fallen far behind in every region now.  Contrary to this threads premise, America was the last place where the 3DS was still ahead of the DS.

As for the thread, people have already gone over most points.  One week is pretty meaningless, and it was a holiday in Japan.  For overall shipments the Americas are ahead of the rest of the world minus Japan.  Japan is about 15% ahead of the Americas.  Japan has also gotten better software support than the west.

It did in its first year but then the DS went turbo mode. At this point in its lifespan DS sales in Japan were outselling what the 3DS is currently selling worldwide.

Cool, cheers for that.

It's Reggie's fault, he needs to do more.

Lifetime 3DS sales are about NA-9m, EU-9m, Jap-12m, Total-33m

DS in the same time was around NA-11m, EU-11m, Jap-16m, Total 41m

seems like everyone says smartphones and tablets. guess i will take a different approach then. this great software you speak of dosent exist. sure there are a few decent games but depending on the genres you like theres hardly enough games to sell the system. say i like racers, well there is Mario Kart and... hmm cant really think of anything else that stands out. well i enjoy fps games... oh those are non existent. maybe theres some good platformers. hah finally we have 2 Mario games and... well at least theres some indy support. maybe theres some good RPGs. Kingdom Hearts is good, Fire Emblem... POKEMON X AND Y, OH MY GAWD YES!!! And come October 12th sales will explode =)

yeah im just having some fun, clearly Americans are just all stupid... well i mean theres at least like 10 million smart ones but thats not much compared to the total population ;)

Girl I work with used to play ds games all the time...today she was showing me a game she downloaded on her samsung for free and spent most of the shift playing it...wonder why 3ds is isn't doing it for people (I don't live in north america but Im pretty sure it's a sign of the times...it's probably a good thing the 3ds seems to be selling reasonably well at all)

People don't want to admit smartphones/tablets, but it's simply the truth.

I've been all across North America the last year or so in about 8 or 9 different airports; the amount of kids I see playing games on their own/parents phone/tablet outnumbers any type of gaming handheld by 3 or 4 to 1 quite easily these days.

3DS does better in Japan simply because it's not only a game handheld it's also the main game console for many households period. That will never happen in North America, people love their big screen TVs and lounging on their comfy couches too much, they'll always want a home console (at least for now).

If I was a parent and didn't particularly have any vested interest in any kind of video game brand, I'd probably much rather my kids got hooked on tablet games for on the go too. $1 a game vs. $40 a game is an easy choice.

3DS is fine. It's not a massive seller like in Japan because we like consoles more here. It has to compete with PS3, 360, Wii, Wii U, and so on. I think the effect of Tablets and Smartphones on it are small - unlike how they have impacted Vita - but the market isn't handheld dominated like it is in Japan. 3DS is still a solid performer and should do really well at Christmas. Traditionally, Nintendo's handhelds have taken off in the US when a Pokemon releases, which is usually one year behind Japan.