3DS Fastest System Ever to Five Million in Japan - Breaks the Record

[X_XSlashX_X]

I remember buying the 3DS back in May and June/July seeing it struggle so much then having that price cut I thought to myself for a sec if it was a mistake getting the 3DS. But now I can say for a fact it wasn't

 

[DSGamer64]

wow the gba did really well

GBA did well because it was the only mainstream handheld during 2000s. No competition or whatsoever in the handheld market.

The PSP and PS Vita were not on the market when both the DS and 3DS launched, what's your point? Nintendo has never had any real competition in the portable market. The Sega Gamegear was the biggest colossal flop next to the N-Gage and some of the other attempts by companies at portable console gaming.

 

[Erdnaxela]

The true meaning of sales going through the roof.
Nintendo in panic mode is really amazing.

 

[EyeZ]

Pretty impressive, we all know the sells figures are really a reflection of the price cut, but hey! still impressive.

 

[Veho]

Nintendo used Price Drop!

It's super effective!

 

[Guild McCommunist]

As a hater of all things Nintendo, this is great news since Nintendo takes a loss on every 3DS unit since the price drop.

 

[Luigi2012SM64DS]

Nintendo used Price Drop!

It's super effective!

lol. but true,
next your gonna see the dsl for 20 bucks

 

[heartgold]

Good comeback, that huge spike from the 40th week onwards is probably due to big 3 M's, Super Mario, Mario Kart and Monster Hunter releases. Imagine the impact of 3DSlite, Pokemon, true Zelda game and that 2D Mario which is out this year.

EDIT: Oh wow, I forgot Monster Hunter 4, holy shit 3DS is gonna be huge this year as well.

 

[Master Mo]

Honestly I'm hoping the PSV will be very successful as well to show all those "Analysis" that there is still a real place for handheld-gaming.

And I say that as someone, who is typing this with an iPad and owns an iPhone... Who the #### uses cellphones to play Real games for a long time.

I'm enjoying seeing Handhelds be as successful as they use to be....

Also who would have thought that the 3DS would be this successful. I sure didn't...

 

[saberjoy]

wow the gba did really well

GBA did well because it was the only mainstream handheld during 2000s. No competition or whatsoever in the handheld market.

The PSP and PS Vita were not on the market when both the DS and 3DS launched, what's your point? Nintendo has never had any real competition in the portable market. The Sega Gamegear was the biggest colossal flop next to the N-Gage and some of the other attempts by companies at portable console gaming.

what the?
the psp came came just one year after the ds was released, you dont call that competion? its like saying the psv would not be giving any competition to the 3ds now

 

[Guild McCommunist]

what the?
the psp came came just one year after the ds was released, you dont call that competion? its like saying the psv would not be giving any competition to the 3ds now

Sony has loved to make a point that they're "not competitors" due to different market appeal. Nintendo sells to casuals, Sony sells to real gamers.

YES THAT LATER HALF WAS A JOKE BUT THE FIRST HALF IS WHAT THEY SAY.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

As a hater of all things Nintendo, this is great news since Nintendo takes a loss on every 3DS unit since the price drop.

If you hate all things Nintendo, why the fuck post in a thread about it? Just curious cuz I've heard a lot of people hate you, you commy bastard you.


I do too don't

 

[Veho]

If you hate all things Nintendo, why the fuck post in a thread about it?

Because he's an incorrigible troll.

 

[ferofax]

Without the panic price cut there's no way the figures would be the same as they are today.

umm, did it ever occur to people that *maybe* that wasn't a panic price cut, but a shrewd calculated plan all along? granted, very risky, and a lot of things could go wrong, and a lot did actually. but when it got right, it got very very right.

think of it. the initial overblown price was because Nintendo saw enough hype to cash in on the relatively empty tier of next-gen handheld. but they were able to take that massive price cut because, well, maybe that was the true value all along. and they hurt a lot of early-bird pride by doing that, but i'm feeling that despite some misgivings about it, the Ambassador actually delivered and made up for that, maybe even more. plus now, the 3DS is starting to show some pretty spectacular magic, thanks to Revelations and other top-notch games. it's all shining shimmering splendid now, and it'll only get better with Kid Icarus and Kingdom Hearts on the way.

also, i've only recently discovered, but now i know for sure why Nintendo have been doing budget specs instead of bleeding edge--it's Reggie's grand scheme. i read about it on his Wikipedia article. so i guess i had been right all along, i just didn't know. he truly is the Regginator. *pats myself on the back*

i hope after WiiU, Nintendo surprises us with holo gaming. i know for a fact that they're toying with the idea since last year (i read somewhere on GameFAQs about how they had an event in Tokyo where they had a holo display set up with Mario running around doing stuff; i sure wanna see that). Holo Battletech would be godly.

Nintendo used Price Drop!

It's super effective!

I thought the Price Drop move was used to set up something like... Mario Kart+3DLand combo? or that broken move, Revelations?

 

[OriginalHamster]

It really hasn't crossed the 5.000.000 mark yet, it's almost there though =P
Oh, and there's a chart, seems like a new system called "Vita" is out there...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|System | This Week  | Last Week  | Last Year  |   YTD	|  Last YTD  |	 LTD	 |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|  3DS  |  67.558 |	 75.018 |	   |	649.812 |			|   4.931.955 |
|  PS3  |  22.002 |	 23.293 |	 26.766 |	194.165 |	192.355 |   7.830.550 |
| PSP # | 15.860 |	 15.847 |	107.000 |	158.467 |	272.228 |  18.887.851 |
|  PSV  |  13.939 |	 17.141 |	   |	126.517 |			|	 566.503 |
|  WII  |	  8.206 |	  8.814 |	 15.028 |	101.293 |	141.833 |  12.264.514 |
| NDS # |   1.608 |	  1.759 |	 23.111 |	 17.564 |	210.417 |  32.826.050 |
|  PS2  |    1.239 |		481 |	  1.665 |	  5.425 |	 11.512 |  21.779.532 |
|  360  |	 1.139 |	  1.382 |	  2.118 |	  9.601 |	 16.746 |   1.545.646 |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|  ALL  |	131.551 |	143.735 |	175.688 |  1.262.844 |	845.091 | 100.632.601 |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| DSiLL |		957 |	  1.090 |	 12.069 |	  9.913 |	108.809 |   2.304.232 |
|  DSi  |		651 |		669 |	 10.039 |	  7.651 |	 90.496 |   5.841.701 |
|  PSP  |	 15.860 |	 15.847 |	106.893 |	158.467 |	266.215 |  18.711.864 |
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[Midna]

If you make the sales relative to the size of the gaming industry the GBA would have massively outsold the 3ds.

Then why hasn't anything else broken the record since

 

[Guild McCommunist]

umm, did it ever occur to people that *maybe* that wasn't a panic price cut, but a shrewd calculated plan all along? granted, very risky, and a lot of things could go wrong, and a lot did actually. but when it got right, it got very very right.

think of it. the initial overblown price was because Nintendo saw enough hype to cash in on the relatively empty tier of next-gen handheld. but they were able to take that massive price cut because, well, maybe that was the true value all along. and they hurt a lot of early-bird pride by doing that, but i'm feeling that despite some misgivings about it, the Ambassador actually delivered and made up for that, maybe even more. plus now, the 3DS is starting to show some pretty spectacular magic, thanks to Revelations and other top-notch games. it's all shining shimmering splendid now, and it'll only get better with Kid Icarus and Kingdom Hearts on the way.

also, i've only recently discovered, but now i know for sure why Nintendo have been doing budget specs instead of bleeding edge--it's Reggie's grand scheme. i read about it on his Wikipedia article. so i guess i had been right all along, i just didn't know. he truly is the Regginator. *pats myself on the back*

i hope after WiiU, Nintendo surprises us with holo gaming. i know for a fact that they're toying with the idea since last year (i read somewhere on GameFAQs about how they had an event in Tokyo where they had a holo display set up with Mario running around doing stuff; i sure wanna see that). Holo Battletech would be godly.

I'll just say "you're wrong".

Price cuts come when systems don't sell well. If the 3DS sold well at $250 it would still be $250. Instead it was doing quite poorly so they dropped the price (perhaps in panic) and now it sells well.

You're whole "they did it to rip off early birds" theory is just false in so many ways. First off, Nintendo is selling the 3DS at a loss, and no one wants to sell at a loss unless they need to. They needed to. Second off, if they could sell at a significantly lower price point and still be profitable, they probably would. It'd be more sales in the end most likely and probably more cash.

Also, this whole "Reggie's grand scheme" thing, is it "we don't need fancy hardware since casuals don't care" or "we don't need fancy hardware because our fanbase will buy it regardless"?

As for the rest part with "holo gaming", um, I don't even know what to say.

 

[heartgold]

It really hasn't crossed the 5.000.000 mark yet, it's almost there though =P
Oh, and there's a chart, seems like a new system called "Vita" is out there...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|System | This Week  | Last Week  | Last Year  |   YTD	|  Last YTD  |	 LTD	 |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|  3DS  |  67.558 |	 75.018 |	   |	649.812 |			|   4.931.955 |
|  PS3  |  22.002 |	 23.293 |	 26.766 |	194.165 |	192.355 |   7.830.550 |
| PSP # | 15.860 |	 15.847 |	107.000 |	158.467 |	272.228 |  18.887.851 |
|  PSV  |  13.939 |	 17.141 |	   |	126.517 |			|	 566.503 |
|  WII  |	  8.206 |	  8.814 |	 15.028 |	101.293 |	141.833 |  12.264.514 |
| NDS # |   1.608 |	  1.759 |	 23.111 |	 17.564 |	210.417 |  32.826.050 |
|  PS2  |	1.239 |		481 |	  1.665 |	  5.425 |	 11.512 |  21.779.532 |
|  360  |	 1.139 |	  1.382 |	  2.118 |	  9.601 |	 16.746 |   1.545.646 |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|  ALL  |	131.551 |	143.735 |	175.688 |  1.262.844 |	845.091 | 100.632.601 |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| DSiLL |		957 |	  1.090 |	 12.069 |	  9.913 |	108.809 |   2.304.232 |
|  DSi  |		651 |		669 |	 10.039 |	  7.651 |	 90.496 |   5.841.701 |
|  PSP  |	 15.860 |	 15.847 |	106.893 |	158.467 |	266.215 |  18.711.864 |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

What, are you playing dumb on purpose? That's last weeks sales! 5 million was hit this weekend.

 

[XtremeCore]

wow the gba did really well

GBA did well because it was the only mainstream handheld during 2000s. No competition or whatsoever in the handheld market.

The PSP and PS Vita were not on the market when both the DS and 3DS launched, what's your point? Nintendo has never had any real competition in the portable market. The Sega Gamegear was the biggest colossal flop next to the N-Gage and some of the other attempts by companies at portable console gaming.

I'm talking about competition in terms of handheld generations, not their demographic appeal. The DS and PSP were in the same generation era. So are the 3DS and PSVita.
As long as consumers get to choose which handheld should they get, there is competition. Nintendo has never had any real competition in the portable market during the 6th generation era (i.e. GBA era) because software line-ups are clearly more superior than other companies. Also, install base of GBA was clearly larger than other handheld. More developers invest into GBA for the handheld market of the industry.
However, in the 7th generation era, developers are now given choices - DS or PSP. It's no longer the old GBA-Only for Handheld kind of situation. Different developers develop games for different handheld to meet the different needs of their games (DS for intuitiveness and PSP for horsepower perhaps?). As a result, titles which could have been on the DS are now shifted to the PSP. Since for many gamers, software sells hardware, consumers now make decision on which handheld to buy based on the software line-ups. This is the competition I was talking about.

 

[lostdwarf]

umm, did it ever occur to people that *maybe* that wasn't a panic price cut, but a shrewd calculated plan all along? granted, very risky, and a lot of things could go wrong, and a lot did actually. but when it got right, it got very very right.

think of it. the initial overblown price was because Nintendo saw enough hype to cash in on the relatively empty tier of next-gen handheld. but they were able to take that massive price cut because, well, maybe that was the true value all along. and they hurt a lot of early-bird pride by doing that, but i'm feeling that despite some misgivings about it, the Ambassador actually delivered and made up for that, maybe even more. plus now, the 3DS is starting to show some pretty spectacular magic, thanks to Revelations and other top-notch games. it's all shining shimmering splendid now, and it'll only get better with Kid Icarus and Kingdom Hearts on the way.

also, i've only recently discovered, but now i know for sure why Nintendo have been doing budget specs instead of bleeding edge--it's Reggie's grand scheme. i read about it on his Wikipedia article. so i guess i had been right all along, i just didn't know. he truly is the Regginator. *pats myself on the back*

i hope after WiiU, Nintendo surprises us with holo gaming. i know for a fact that they're toying with the idea since last year (i read somewhere on GameFAQs about how they had an event in Tokyo where they had a holo display set up with Mario running around doing stuff; i sure wanna see that). Holo Battletech would be godly.

I'll just say "you're wrong".

Price cuts come when systems don't sell well. If the 3DS sold well at $250 it would still be $250. Instead it was doing quite poorly so they dropped the price (perhaps in panic) and now it sells well.

You're whole "they did it to rip off early birds" theory is just false in so many ways. First off, Nintendo is selling the 3DS at a loss, and no one wants to sell at a loss unless they need to. They needed to. Second off, if they could sell at a significantly lower price point and still be profitable, they probably would. It'd be more sales in the end most likely and probably more cash.

Also, this whole "Reggie's grand scheme" thing, is it "we don't need fancy hardware since casuals don't care" or "we don't need fancy hardware because our fanbase will buy it regardless"?

As for the rest part with "holo gaming", um, I don't even know what to say.

You appear to be bullshitting again.
The 3DS is selling at a PROFIT.
The cost of the entire parts including shipping is less than £65 per unit.
They are selling at a loss compared to the profit they would have got at the higher price.
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