Its not a problem for Nintendo as they sell extra hardware but rather gives a false sense of a userbase. What I am getting at is that mobiles and tablets have impacted far greater on handheld gaming then the sales suggest due to people buying multiple devices. As I said people use to do that in past gens to but have you seen how many limited edition 3DS' there are? it is at least 20-30 different ones across all the regions. I don't ever recall past gens have so many varieties for people to buy mulltiple ones because they either a zelda fan, a fire emblem fan, pokemon fan or mario fan etc...

I'm sorry, but this thread is pointless. Doing almost 80k in a week is not "bad" at all. It's actually rather good.

And I'm sorry PS4 fans, but NO console can keep up selling 100k+ a week forever. None, it just doesn't happen. 3DS, like all systems, will have it's roller coaster ups and downs in weekly sales. But freaking out over nearly 80k in a week? That's pretty fuckin' ridiculous.

Acting like the 3DS is anything but successful, let alone that it's NOT still doing well, is, I'm sorry, a fool's argument. Ask the PS Vita sometime how much it'd love to maintain even 40k a week.

nah.

Tomadochi life just released and it could become as successful as AC new leaf.
then there is smash and other games. oh.......e3 is round the corner, by the way.


I see NO reason to worry just yet!

You see that, its why the 3DD and the Vita are failing now. Its not about games. Cause you can play games on phones and tablets too, yes they lack the physical buttons a dedicated handheld has but as the pic shows above thats nothing you can't fix. Assuming you are already walking around with a backpack to stow away the controller when not using it.

With this, you can have anysized phone or up to a 7" tablet as you primary device. Do all the stuff that those devices will let you do in addition to still playing games on them on the go. The problems dedicated handhelds are having now are 1. 1 in ever 5 people in the world own a smartphone. Thats an install base of over 1B people. That number is too much to ignore. 2. Dedicated handhleds are redundant, especially if you already own a smartphone. Do you really want to be carrying around two devices, chargers, memory cards..etc. When you can just carry your tablet and if you really have to a controller?

Yes no console will sell 100k+ forever, and all humans die too.  Back in context, 3DS went from averaging ~150k a week last year to ~100k a week, in just it's early 4th year of life.  That's a 33% drop YoY at an unexpected time.  

Vita's a terrible benchmark.  If you hope 3DS will sell 80+ million then Vita is no kind of reference; maybe look at the PS3 and how many years it had to sustain sales.  If 3DS basically stays in this 80k~150k for years more then it's fine.  It would basically be like the PS3.

What sucks is 3DS is tracking this much lower than Nintendo's forecast for this year.  The financials are probably going to be even worse than last year.  (Disclaimer: this is not investment advice. I do not own shares of Nintendo, Sony or MS).

how many games came out for each?

I guess major new games in 2014 will be:

• Bravely Default 0.88M
• Kirby Tripple Deluxe 0.82M
  
• DQ Monsters 2 0.77M
• Yoshi's New Island 0.41M
  
• Harvest Moon: Linking the new World 0.22
• Mario Golf 0.18M
• Lego Movie 0.17M
• Fossil Fighters 0.16M
• Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy (not in the game DB???)

versus

• Watch Dogs 1.86M
• inFamous 1.36M
• MGS: GZ 0.71M
• Thief 0.44M
  
• Wolfenstein 0.42M
• Tomb Raider 0.41M
• Final Fantasy 14 0.17M
• Lego Movie 0.14M
• Rayman Legends 0.14M
• Yakuza: Ishin 0.14
• ...

There's your answer right there :P (and i think ps4 has had more games if im not mistaken).

3DS only had Kirby for its big game of the first half of the year, Mario Golf did do terrible but it was never going to be huge. DQ is a spinoff sequel and its japan only. Bravely Default sales arent that high as that game only released in NA this year while Europe last year (japan 2012).

3DS big games are literally in the second half. Pokemon OR/AS alone will push an extra 5-7mil and then you got Youkai Watch 2(japan's new Monster Franchise) + SSB for 3DS + Monster Hunter 4G (japan only) + more :)

Not saying of course 3DS is doing good, just wanted to point out Consoles (and Sony in general) have all that third party support, its very common to have More sales on Consoles due to that alone!

Handhelds in general don t see to sell as much software as hone consoles -  the Wii has sold more software than the 3 ds numuours  times over the last 1.5 years (not total sales that I am aware but but on several weekly updates 

a strong home console can offset a weak handheld but the reverse does not seem to apply

There's been no huge game released since A Link Between Worlds last November. I'm not saying that any games released this year were bad, just saying none really made anyone go buy the 3DS. Plus the hardware will probably do great at Christmas