Not surprised considering its the only handheld thats not a legacy console. The 3ds hasnt rrally had any big worldwide releases thus far and does so well while the wii u has had Zelda, Pokken, Starfox and it sels poorly. The 3ds basically has no competition so it will sell well.
Oh, and what did I say like 2 years ago when everyone was like "OH THE HANDHELD MARKET IS DEAD, IT'S OVER?"
Oh yeah, that's right, I said in the end the combined handheld market would land in the 70 to 80 mil range or beyond and that the market would, ultimately, be shown to be roughly it's pre-DS size. And lo and behold if we aren't quickly approaching the 75mil mark.
Cause the DS and PSP - and the entire gaming market of the 7th gen - was an *anomoly* people, a temporary and unusual boost caused by temporary, passing interests of a neighboring market, not the expansion of the true market demographics of the product's audience.
Well deserved, congratulations
I bought a New3DSXL this month after thinking about it for a while. One year ago I was on the brink of buying a Vita (because of price and some nice games) but the diminishing support for it made me hesitate.
The new console replaces (still got the old one left) an old 3DSXL because I want to play some games that are more action oriented in "super stable" 3D (like Kid Icarus, MK7 and Zelda OoT/MM).
It is faster, it has the "super stable" feature and got a web browser that is acceptable.
EDIT: I try to bring the 3DS with me when I travel. The last 6 - 9 months there has been VERY few Streetpass hits.
| Ryng_Tolu said: PR said sold, but it's 99.99% shipped. There were 58.85 million 3DS sold in as for March 31. This mean that Nintendo has sold in a minimum of 1.15 million 3DS this quarter, and that's number will be even bigger in the quarter report since there are still 4 weeks of sales. What really impressed me is that last year 3DS shipped 1.01 million that quarter, which mean they are gonna be up YOY by a good margin... well, didn't expect that. |
Not relly, Nintendo always use shiped numbers not sold numbers, 58.85m as March 31 are also shiped numbers probably same like this 60m.
| Nuvendil said: You know, it is insane - INSANE - to look at the Wii U and 3DS side by side and see how radically different Nintendo's handling has been on these systems. Everything they got right with the 3DS, they got wrong with the Wii U. The 3DS has had pricecuts and good sales at opportune moments, the Wii U has not. Nintendo recognized consistently when price became a major obstacle for the 3DS and adjusted accordingly. With the Wii U, they did not. Special editions consoles and game bundles have been common and well executed for the 3DS. The Wii U's bundles are usually of games years old, ill timed, and there's only been ONE special edition console the entire time. The 3DS has had good ads on numerous stations for big games like Pokemon, Smash, etc. The Wii U's only had 3 games with prolific advertisement (though they have stepped up advertising since 2014, just not on nearly enough stations). The 3DS has had SYSTEM focused ads that show all the advantages of the backlog, usually multiple ones running at key seasons. The Wii U didn't have a single system focused, backlog-highlighting ad in 2014 - a year where they had lots of positivity and the three top-rated big exclusives (two of which were GOTY nominees), their 2013 ones were absolutely horrible, and they didn't have another one until holiday 2015 which was decent. Nintendo has used their relationships with many companies to great effect on the 3DS to encourage or lock down games like the Bravely series, Monster Hunter, Etrian Odyssey, big and small games alike. On the Wii U, they have done this *to a degree* but not nearly on the level or with the consistence of the 3DS. And lastly, the 3DS has had a consistent, confident image from launch to now. The Wii U? First it was a CORE gamer system, the a casuals system, then they just abandoned all identity and when full on generic for the launch and the first two thirds of 2013, then it was a kids' system, then they finally got something resembling a cohesive, all encompassing identity at 2014's e3 which they still managed to not maintain consistently. Nintendo's always had a tone of lack of confidence in the Wii U, which is a death sentence for any product. If you don't have confidence in what you make, why should the consumer? It's baffling really, the 3DS shows Nintendo does know how to succeed with dedicated hardware. They just mysteriously forget all that when they work with the Wii U. Hopefully, they've learned their lesson on some level. |
Well one of reasons why Wii U failed is 3DS, after not so good 3DS launch they moved their all strength in order to save it, thats why had one fast price cut na couple of big hits just around 6 months after launch. Problem is that they were saving 3DS in same time when they were preparing Wii U launch, basically in one moment they moved almost all their resources from Wii U and they had whole focus on 3DS in order to save it. Nintendo managed to save 3DS but Wii U beacuse of that suffer greatly. Thats one of reason why they right after Wii U launch in January talked about plans for unifed platform.
Miyamotoo said:
Not relly, Nintendo always use shiped numbers not sold numbers, 58.85m as March 31 are also shiped numbers probably same like this 60m. |
Isn't sold numbers are quite harder to get than shipped numbers?
Pocky Lover Boy!
Jranation said:
Isn't sold numbers are quite harder to get than shipped numbers? |
Yes, that's why Nintendo always use shipped numbers, not sold numbers.
Just cut the 2DS price in Europe already!
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