3DS massive up YOY in Japan

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Ryng on 18 February 2015

Lawlight said:
Down 6% YoY.

0.25% up for Famitsu.

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Materia-Blade on 18 February 2015

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I know it's a joke thread. In all honesty, it's actually pretty impressive for a system that's in it's fourth year on the market to not see declines YoY. Strong software like MM3D and the New 3DS models are definitely what's stopping the bleeding, but it's still impressive. I just wonder if the enormous success and strong 3DS library in Japan is the primary reason that Wii U can't seem to catch a break over there. Really depressing to see that a new Kirby game priced at a budget can't even sell on the Wii U over there. Japan normally loves Kirby.

rainbow curse isn't exactly a kirby, but it IS selling in japan.

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zorg1000 on 18 February 2015

Screamapillar said:
I know it's a joke thread. In all honesty, it's actually pretty impressive for a system that's in it's fourth year on the market to not see declines YoY. Strong software like MM3D and the New 3DS models are definitely what's stopping the bleeding, but it's still impressive. I just wonder if the enormous success and strong 3DS library in Japan is the primary reason that Wii U can't seem to catch a break over there. Really depressing to see that a new Kirby game priced at a budget can't even sell on the Wii U over there. Japan normally loves Kirby.

It's basically in its 5th year on the market, it launched in Feb 2011 so it was available for almost the whole year. But ya it's especially impressive that it has barely any YoY decline this year especially considering last year was down like 40% or something like that.

As for Kirby, it's performing similar to other games like Captain Toad, Hyrule Warriors, Tropical Freeze so pretty decent by Wii U standards.

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Ultrashroomz on 18 February 2015

LOL

"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."