I'd have to agree with you on this. Perhaps some people DON'T research as thoroughly as we do but I'm willing to bet that those who don't are influenced by those they ask that do.

Hm.  This is the only post in the thread about 3DS sales and they aren't even in the OP either.  Where did you get them from?

Seems VGC was on the money with that tracking then, just a little bit over.  Sales aren't great but aren't terrible either, as you say.

We are no longer in 2007, though.

It's time to start looking at sales from the perspective of a market which is going to severely contract over the course of a generation (and is already well on its way).

And in relation to a handheld & home console which both failed to launch and another home console which is stumbling out of the gate, 106k is not great but not terrible either.

People will know about the price drop when they'll see it at e3/Tv, in fact, i think most casual gamers wont know until e3.

You'd be surprised how people are uninformed or only take informations from Gamestop/Best Buy/... , so they wont know, because they wont tell to the people who want a One that the console will get a price drop, they cant, it's their business.

It's me again... I just typed in gamestop.com, and the very first picture that greeted me was XBox for.$399 starting June 9.

I still think you are underestimating the intelect of casual buyers. 

I got it from NeoGaf. A leaker alluded to this number when responding to someone's educated guess

I'm struggling with that analogy, Rol.

To apply the nearest thing I can think of: TV ratings in the USA.  Nielsen says that most TV shows aren't being watched nearly as much as they were in the late 90's and earlier, due to the advent of more choice (cable); more options for broadcasting (+1 channels; Tivo; internet shows) etc.

Is that it for dedicated TV then?  Does every sitcom that doesn't reach Friends numbers get cancelled?  Every Sci-Fi show that doesn't hit the ratings of Star Trek TNG is swiftly cut? 

Of course not.  Markets adapt.  And yes, it's definitely a case of "lowering your expectations" but such is life.  Mediums of whatever it may be (TV/videogames/books/news delivery etc.) do not stay constant, they change with time.  

I suppose you could call everything bad compared to what it used to be if you wanted.  Which is fine.  But I don't think that just because something has peaked, everything later is automatically terrible.

(Whether these 3DS numbers are actually terrible probably needs a few more years inside this generation to truly assess the damage).

That is because the data of his "anedoctal" pool is like 100% accurate for one big retailer and he just says based on that what console have been doing better than the other and if any of the 2 are rising or falling. He don't claim exact numbers and that is why he is a lot more thrustworthy than VGC, but sometimes he have the general numbers wrong.

Even if you take it for granted that a huge part of the population are blithering idiots that don't research jack squat, the PS4 still wins because of social inertia. XB1 has a much worse name in social media, and if someone has 10 gaming friends, the odds are ever higher that they will have a PS4 over an XB1 for the new gen, so players that want to MP with friends will continue that trend.

This really explain all about their recent change of policies. 

But how is it possible VGC got it so wrong ?! Ok i thought it wasn't 100% accurate, but WOW this is just completely at random then !