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Yerm on 16 February 2015

on Saturday i tried to get one. I shit you not- there was 1 left in the entire town at Walmart and i got it. now there are none left for over 60 miles, or for the next few weeks. THE SECOND DAY THEY WERE IN STORES this happened to me



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swii26 on 16 February 2015

sold out... doesn't matter to me until Xenoblade 3D



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hunter_alien on 16 February 2015
zorg1000 said:
binary solo said:
In the USA possibly yes. But in the UK it only gave 3DS a 57% boost, which is not much for a hardware refresh in the grand scheme of things. And if that lead to a selling out in the UK then that would mean undersupply, which would probably mean selling better than expected, but in this case better than expected would not necessarily mean selling very well in an absolute sense.

I'm sure Nintendo through it supplied the USA adequately for projected demand. As USA is a reasonably strong country for 3DS I would think the supply into the USA would be good enough that a nation-wide sell out means very good sales.


I thought the 57% increase was for total hardware not just 3DS


Exactly.

With 235k sales boost in Japan, alligned launch will be above 500k on a global scale IMO.

In the UK  a 57% total hardware increase based mostly on the N3DS means it will do ~20k there (based on the 31k total hw sales of the last available week according to VGC).

Seeing that in mainland European countries 3DS sales is are on par with the UK (Germany) or larger (France) a HW boost of 100k+ is not out of question, tough I wouldent be surprised if weekly sales in Others for the 3DS will be in the 150k+ region. Add in a 100k+ guaranteed opening in the US (tough it will probably be in the 150k region as well, if not more) and you have a pretty healthy launch.

All in all I think this will be a pretty good example why the dedicated handheld death scenarios will once again fall flat on their face. When you have a handheld system launched 4 years ago, doing 1 million+ in its first month of availability, you know that they are not going the way of the dodo, anytime soon



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benji232 on 16 February 2015
binary solo said:
In the USA possibly yes. But in the UK it only gave 3DS a 57% boost, which is not much for a hardware refresh in the grand scheme of things. And if that lead to a selling out in the UK then that would mean undersupply, which would probably mean selling better than expected, but in this case better than expected would not necessarily mean selling very well in an absolute sense.

I'm sure Nintendo through it supplied the USA adequately for projected demand. As USA is a reasonably strong country for 3DS I would think the supply into the USA would be good enough that a nation-wide sell out means very good sales.

It gave TOTAL hardware sales in the UK a 57% boost. Lol, it didn't sell 5k and it seemed pretty obvious to me with the way that they worded it in the article..

edit: beaten by multiple people lol.



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The_Yoda on 16 February 2015

I can only speak of the two Wal-marts I visited locally but they only got 4 per store 2 black, 2 red.



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I3LuEI3omI3eR on 16 February 2015
tak13 said:

It was selling out before even releases,so what you say isn't a surprise!As for you question,what do you mean better than expected...?
It depends on what each person expects!I can't say that is sells better than expected as in any way I have high expectations!:P

I expected it to sell like the OG 3DS did release date. It's just so strange to find no stores with it... The mom and pop shops in my neighborhood are over pricing it for $300! It's just not common to find a game system sell out when it's not even the Holidays.

People are saying it's Nintendo not stocking enough... But if retailers only got 6-10 in there stores and that's not counting the pre-orders people did... that's still a great number.



I3LuEI3omI3eR on 16 February 2015
EpicLight said:
The New 3DS is only going to be bigger and better once more software comes out primarily for that new system. I have the New 3DS XL, and i'm so impressed by how fast the thing processes!

This is what happens when you release new Hardware with a franchise beloved like Zelda and a another 3rd party franchise in Monster Hunter IV. You get them sales!! Nintendo should have know this since the Wii!



SjOne on 16 February 2015

They probably didn't stock as much since this is the first handheld generations where Japan has sold the most units



zorg1000 on 16 February 2015
binary solo said:
zorg1000 said:


I thought the 57% increase was for total hardware not just 3DS

Yes, you're right. My mistake. Having said that 57% increase on what might have been about 30K total console sales the previous week is still not huge. It certainly doesn't represent a major revitalisation of 3DS's fortunes in the UK.

Well to be fair, nobody here has said or implied that it was revitalized in the UK.

3DS has only sold over 20k at launch, when it got a price cut, during the holidays and when Pokemon released so if it did in fact sell over 20k this week then that would be very solid sales.



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DarkRPGamer007 on 16 February 2015

Nobody can find one in my city



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