Famitsu Sales: Week 20, 2025 (May 12

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eddy7eddy on 23 May 2025

Norion said:

Interesting how it took the same amount of time for both. If the same holds for the Switch we're looking at August till the launch starts impacting it in a big way. The main question is if it'll be more like the DS and have another drop right away in June or stay more stable for stretch like the 3DS.

eddy7eddy said:

Wow yeah you're right, I mixed things up here. I'll delete this since someone else shared it in a clearer and more accurate data.

How did you mix things up?

I think between staying up late, relying on ChatGPT and not specifying the total sum of all the different 3DS hardware.

The 3DS was doing much better that I thought!

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Norion on 24 May 2025

eddy7eddy said:

Norion said:

Interesting how it took the same amount of time for both. If the same holds for the Switch we're looking at August till the launch starts impacting it in a big way. The main question is if it'll be more like the DS and have another drop right away in June or stay more stable for stretch like the 3DS.

How did you mix things up?

I think between staying up late, relying on ChatGPT and not specifying the total sum of all the different 3DS hardware.

The 3DS was doing much better that I thought!

Yeah the 3DS had a pretty damn good 2017 considering it got replaced early that year. A lot of people not realizing the Switch was the successor to it and viewing them as completely separate products probably helped a lot.

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Phenomajp13 on 24 May 2025

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Norion said:

Am I missing something or is this just completely wrong? Looking at the weekly chart index shows the 3DS way above these numbers for those weeks and actually quite similar to how the Switch is doing currently.

Yep they are wrong. Here are the weeks before and after the successor released for the 3DS and DS:

Week	3DS	DS
1	105,360	92,318
2	36,735	35,970
3	28,735	25,305
4	25,992	24,792
5	27,264	26,104
6	26,754	25,278
7	21,820	21,096
3DS launch	22,389	19,605
Switch launch	25,758	17,647
10	23,827	14,144
11	44,821	14,904
12	42,754	19,166
13	33,476	20,046
14	25,738	17,695
15	23,916	14,789
16	22,397	12,247
17	22,754	15,277
18	26,175	17,225
19	16,912	8,935
20	17,132	8,436
21	17,762	8,746
22	15,897	8,829
23	14,989	8,869
24	14,738	9,469
25	14,523	8,173
26	15,442	8,313

Or in other words both consoles don't drop to their new base lines (around 15k and 8-9k respectively) until about 2 months after the launch of the successor.

May I ask if you could add Switch and Switch 2 launch week to this chart? Only ask because this is a great reference/comparison.