The news that Nintendo's 3DS launch was underwhelming and didn't go quite as well as planned is, in all senses, old news - and everyone's kind of tired of hearing about it. So, uhh, what if I were to, you know... take that old news and flip it on its head? It looks like industry analysts of the NPD Group are predicting that the Nintendo 3DS will surpass the first-year sales of the Nintendo DS - the widely-popular handheld that had come before the 3DS (in case you'd been living under a Goron the last decade and you had absolutely no idea). The numbers are revealing that, in eight months, the 3DS has sold 1.65 million units in the U.S. - by no means a bad effort. And with the Christmas season rolling around in a couple of seconds, we can only be sure that the handheld's numbers will receive another boost. We've got a few more statistics below.
According to the the NPD Group the Nintendo 3DS is about to surpass the first year sales of the immensely popular Nintendo DS. After eight months on the market the Nintendo 3DS has sold over 1.65 million units in the United States. Heres some other impressive figures to get your head round:
- Nintendo sold more than 675,000 combined hardware units in October. This includes more than 250,000 units of Nintendo 3DS, nearly 250,000 Wii systems and nearly 180,000 units of the Nintendo DS family of systems.
- For the year, Nintendo has sold a combined 7 million hardware units and more than 55 million units of software have been sold for Nintendo platforms. Both of these numbers should increase with the Nov. 20 launch of The Legend of Zelda™: Skyward Sword for Wii.
- Both Wii, up 8 percent year over year, and Nintendo DS, up 23 percent over the previous month, demonstrated strong momentum heading into their respective sixth and eighth holiday seasons. In total, the two platforms have sold more than 87 million combined hardware units and more than 540 million combined units of software in the United States.
if this happens witch is looking like it will nintendo just solidify their number 1 spot in the handheld race RIP vita
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