Is 3DS REALLY selling worse than DS or are the numbers deceiving?

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jonathanalis on 10 January 2014

i realy want to know the numbers, but i have a feeling that 3DS is selling worst than GBA, if we align the sales to lanch dates.

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Fusioncode on 10 January 2014

A positive Nintendo thread? From Toastboy? Aren't you going to compare to the Ouya or something? Or talk about how great the cloud is?

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toastboy44562 on 10 January 2014

RolStoppable said:

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1.) that's what I'm saying, 3DS has a monoploy so it should be selling even better than the DS

3.) No. Smash bros is coming to 3DS, more zeldas on 3ds than Wii U. It has pokemon the Wii U doesn't. It has just as many mario games as the Wii U.

5.) It's not fair to compare TOTAL software sales because the DS had a bunch of hits such as brain training, nintendawgs etc that arent as big anymore. It's more fair to compare specific comparable games.

1) I thought you wanted to make a case that the numbers are deceiving.

2) The 3DS probably has more games than the Wii U, because it launched almost two years earlier. By the way, the Wii U has Pikmin, the 3DS doesn't.

3) I guess it's also not fair to expect anything from toastboy.

1.) I'm sayin' the market share isn't as split so it would make sense that the 3DS has a bigga piece of the pie this time around

2.) You can pump out twice as many 3DS games in the time it takes to make one wii U game. You can also sell more 3DS games so it makes sense to focus on the handheld

3.) will you cut me some slack already!! Im toastboy remember