3DS worldwide sales total 6.68 million

By Tom Phillips Published 27 October, 2011

Higher than DS in same timeframe.

Nintendo has announced a new worldwide 3DS sales total of 6.68 million units.

That figure covers sales from 3DS launch up to 30th September, as revealed today in Nintendo's half-year financial report.

That means 3DS sales are comparable to DS sales within a similar timeframe - the 3DS is even marginally in front.

The 3DS launched in Japan in February, seven months ago. The 3DS arrived in Europe and the US roughly a month later.

Seven months after the DS launch, Nintendo had shifted 6.65 million units. But the global roll-out took longer - November 2004 in the US, December 2004 in Japan and March 2005 in Europe.

Between April and June just 710,000 3DS were sold, although hardware sales sprung back to life this summer. A far healthier 2.36 million 3DS consoles were bought between July and September after the system's August price-drop.

Worldwide 3DS software sales topped 8.13 million during the period, with Ocarina of Time 3D surpassing the 1 million milestone. Life-to-date software sales have now hit 17.56 million.

The report lists the current DS hardware total is now a now-gargantuan 149 million, while the Wii sits atop 89.36 million units sold.

Mario Kart 7 for 3DS.

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  • J0rdan_KZ #1 7 months ago

    Post deleted at 09:51:51 12-12-2011

  • crsmithy #2 7 months ago

    The original DS was pretty pig ugly, it was with the redesign that the sales started soaring if memory serves - I wonder if there will be a similar catalyst for the 3DS.

    Saying that, it's not exactly doing terribly!

  • captainCandy #3 7 months ago

    I chose SD video, but the resolution is much lower than SD!

  • Subdominator #4 7 months ago

    The 3DS is only in front because it had the most substantial price cut ever in the industry three months after a product launch. They cut the price even more than Microsoft did with the original Xbox. Without this effect 3DS would be far behind DS, so I don't see how 3DS could become anywhere near as popular as the DS. Especially when competition is now much bigger with all the smartphones and tablets and PS Vita. The 3D gimmick just isn't enough to sell the system to a big audience. The screen is too small. The design is shameful. If anything price should be an important factor, but: 3DS sells only half of the units the NDS sold at the same price point. Which basically just says that people aren't interested in 3DS.

  • NotSoSlim #5 7 months ago

    Yes and would this be the case if there was no price cut? If they had software the price cut would not of been needed yet
    Edited by NotSoSlim at 27/10/11 @ 10:48

  • ZuluHero #6 7 months ago

    It's not exactly ugly either.

    I guess it feels like its suffering a bit because it doesn't have the library yet and releases are just slow and thin on the ground. But saying that, everytime there is a big release there is a huge surge in sales. Like we saw with ocarina, and we will probably see again when RE:Revelations is released.

    Shame that got pushed back though :(

  • geox30 #7 7 months ago

    By holiday time,when some AAA games will be out,it should sell well enough to establish a user base that can attract some serious 3d party attention.

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #8 7 months ago

    Nintendo financials are out they lost $924 million last 6 months alone(Apr-Sep), im guessing that 3DS number is shipped not sold.

    To lose nearly a billion dollars without a manufacturing problem, or selling at an insane loss is pretty scary.
    Edited by GamesProgrammer at 27/10/11 @ 09:56

  • playgen #9 7 months ago

    Why do people keep defending the 3DS by claiming that the original DS had a crap line up of games? It launched with Project Rub/Feel the Magic, Zoo Keeper, Mr Diller, Wario Ware etc and it carried on from there. And the difference is, the DS was new and unique at the time, the 3DS is very much overly familiar, with the new Nintendogs for instance being largely ignored.

  • Whitster #10 7 months ago

    @ZuluHero Given that we've got Mario twice in the next two months I reckon it'll pick up before RE

  • Subquest #11 7 months ago

    and Nintendo's best efforts to rip people away from the "games" you get on iOS/Android/etc devices.

    But when those "games" are enough for most casuals (i.e. Nintendos biggest market), you've got a major problem. And the longer people pretend that there is no quality to be found in cheap mobile games, the longer the head stays in the sand.
    Edited by Subquest at 27/10/11 @ 10:31

  • ZuluHero #12 7 months ago

    @Whitster well that too. Any big release will boost sales and bolster the library as well, so its all good! :)

  • skowhegan Verified Staff Writer, Eurogamer Network #13 7 months ago

    @GamesProgrammer Sales figures are sales not shipped.

  • Whitster #14 7 months ago

    @GamesProgrammer Again you're ignoring the exchange rate issue with the Yen.

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #15 7 months ago

    @skowhegan

    I dont see anywhere that says its clarifies sold to customers rather than sold to retailers, but i doubt it makes any difference, Nintendo get there money when they sell to retailers, they wont get any more when there sold to customers.

    I really hope mario can turn things around in the next month and over xmas, i still wont be buying one until there is a 100% confirmation one way or the other about a new redesign with a second stick, but i do want one.

  • Embra #16 7 months ago

    No Tom! Stop giving out facts and figures, dammit! You'll just confuse the Interweb pundits who have already decided Nintendo are doomed. Stop trying to inform people; they don't want such newfangled nonsense.

  • sol1du5snak3 #17 7 months ago

    Eurogamer are really loving the use of the word 'gargantuan' at the moment lol

  • SpaceMidget75 Verified Senior Software Developer, Minerva Computer Services #18 7 months ago

    Actually, people were a bit gloomy of the DS when it launched, partly because of the PSP hype and partly because they couldn't see the benefit of touch gaming - that was the reason for the DS's slow start.

    Once people realised that the games were great, touch really worked well AND it was only £/$100 it flew off the shelves to become the leviathan it is today.

    This is in complete contrast to the 3DS where the games were lackluster, 3D gaming didn't really offer anything substantive AND it was far too expensive (over twice the price).

    Now that the price has dropped the 3DS will do reasonably well as a rolling replacement device for some of those 149 million DS users, but not as a bit of kit in it's own right (if you know what I mean).

    You won't see the huge take-off in sales that the DS had once it got over it's slow start.
    Edited by SpaceMidget75 at 27/10/11 @ 11:06

  • Nico4 #19 7 months ago

    Price cuts aside, it's nice to see the system getting more sales. I got mine almost a month ago, and I'm quite happy with it

  • Cobalt_Jackal #20 7 months ago

    6.68 million. And well im more than happy to say that not one of those 6.68mill is mine. ^_^
    Edited by Cobalt_Jackal at 27/10/11 @ 11:21

  • Psychotext #21 7 months ago

    As others have stated, when you pretty much remove any ability to move on price in the future (UK retailers have already sold the 3DS for as low as £99.99) then you're in massive trouble, no matter what sort of a short term bump in sales your price slashing has achieved.

    They've realistically got £50 worth of price cuts (and that's likely pushing it) left to play with in the next five years of the device being on sale. That's really going to hurt them going forward.

  • Zomoniac #22 7 months ago

    This isn't going to do a DS again. The Brain Training crowd that were responsible for those staggering sales aren't going to fork out £150 to add 3D into their sudoku game.

  • Velios #23 7 months ago

    So it wasn't a big failure after all! :)

  • Timotei #24 7 months ago

    It's still an underpowered piece of crap.

  • Beano #25 7 months ago

    Nintendo's spin-machine in action.

  • Powerstreak #26 7 months ago

    @SpaceMidget75 The games weren't great at the start, they were mostly crappy tech demos. It took about a year for great games to appear before people picked the machine up.

  • Lunastra78 #27 7 months ago

    Nintendo will always have its share of fans to buy products (same as Sony and Microsoft), so I think we will see it selling a good amount of consoles yet.

    The difference however, is the most casual group of players who have now moved on to smartphones and $1 games. There is no chance for Nintendo to regain this audience with the 3DS or Wii U and therefore this generation of Nintendo consoles will not come close to the last sales-wise.

    It was the same with the PS2 in the second console gen. It sold a ridiculous amount because of the casual players who wanted Singstar/Buzz/DVD player. And then came the PS3 and the casual audience had moved on to Nintendo and sales were normalized to around 1/3 of the last generation.

    So with this in mind I guess that the 3DS will end up selling around 40-50 million in its lifetime.

  • Gearskin #28 7 months ago

    Trolls belong under bridges.

    Nintendo > Trolls

    EDIT - And I wish people would stop talking about iPhone games. Understand - Nintendo doesn't lose sales to iPhones. People with iPhones do not make a concious decision to suddenly NOT buy Nintendo handhelds. They never owned Nintendo handhelds in the first place. If you put a device in someones hands and then offer them some gaming software for 90p they will buy it.

    Why do people suddenly consider every person who owns an iPhone to be a gamer???
    Edited by Gearskin at 27/10/11 @ 11:37

  • Shadders #29 7 months ago

    I can see it hitting 10m by new year and suddenly things will start to look a lot more rosy for ol' Ninty.

  • C.CFanboy #30 7 months ago

    http://www.3dsview.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3DS-It-Prints-Money.gif

  • ballshock #31 7 months ago

    I regret buying, like about 4 million others

  • Subquest #32 7 months ago

    @gearskin Sorry to do this but...

    Nintendo doesn't lose sales to iPhones.
    Yes they do. They lost me.

    People with iPhones do not make a concious decision to suddenly NOT buy Nintendo handhelds.
    Yes they do. I did. I had a DS, but now owning an iphone I see the 3DS as an unnecessary frivolous purchase.

    They never owned Nintendo handhelds in the first place.
    I did. I owned (and eventually gave away) a DS lite.

    Why do people suddenly consider every person who owns an iPhone to be a gamer???
    Not everybody. Just some. Casuals are Nintendo's lifeblood. These casuals now have a cheaper alternative, and dozens of great games to play.
    Edited by Subquest at 27/10/11 @ 14:54

  • Whitster #33 7 months ago

    @ballshock I regret buying at launch for £100 more (however the £90 DSi trade price took most of that hit), but like all new gadgets thats the risk you take, I'm more than happy that I actually own one given the next few months releases.

  • Monsieur_Blade #34 7 months ago

    Nintedo have cut the console price but i think they need to consider cutting game prices too.

    Mario 3ds, Mario kart 3ds and sonic 3ds are all £32.99 at the min! That's far too high for handheld games. We're in a recession for god sake!!

    They should be about £20 each like on the ds and then sales would soar! U listening Ninty!!

  • Gearskin #35 7 months ago

    @Subquest So you enjoyed your DS so much, and owned so many of the best games on it, that you find yourself sated by games on iPhone?

    ... Then you talk about casuals. Dude... you sound like a casual.

    Girl in my office, sitting in front of me, she wants an iPhone on her next upgrade. I talked to her about alternatives. She didn't actually understand a WORD of it. The result of our conversation... "I want an iPhone." She doesn't know why. I do. It's because everyone else has one.

    Obviously, she'd never purchase a 3DS. But she would probably purchase Plants vs Zombies, because when I showed her that on my Windows handset she enjoyed it.

    See what I mean?

  • craigy Verified Senior Developer, Eurogamer Network #36 7 months ago

    @J0rdan_KZ sorry, I accidentally deleted your comment! Will restore it shortly.

  • Monsieur_Blade #37 7 months ago

    @Gearskin

    Don't be a games snob Gearskin. It's not very becoming.

  • J0rdan_KZ #38 7 months ago

    @craigy I did wonder what happened there :C

  • TravisTouchdown #39 7 months ago

    @Gearskin

    You *really* need to work on your pulling technique, champ.
    Edited by TravisTouchdown at 27/10/11 @ 12:34

  • C.CFanboy #40 7 months ago

    Subquest unfortunately your dreams of seeing Mario Kart on the I-Phone simply aren't going to happen.

  • Subquest #41 7 months ago

    @Gearskin - fair enough, you don't know me, so you might assume I'm a casual. Fact is I'm far from it. You might also assume that all iphone owners are vain, ignorant idiots. You'd be wrong again. I'm not going to pretend their aren't people out there who buy consumer goods in a fickle, vain fashion, but there are plenty of people who read, research, compare and contrast, and make informed decisions, who still end up buying an iphone. The story of one idiot office friend does not make an argument.

    The fact is, the range of quality games that are perfectly suited to the iphones touchscreen and form factor are what informed my decision. I'm not going to pretend all game genres are served well, I'm no fan of touchscreen d-pads and the like, but there's enough quality and variety to make the 3DS unnecessary, which is in my opinion is too large, games too expensive, and frankly a cartridge based system for a portable device in 2011 shows a lack of foresight.
    Edited by Subquest at 27/10/11 @ 14:54

  • Gearskin #42 7 months ago

    @TravisTouchdown Oh Hell no, she is, literally, one of the most annoying people I know. I'm sitting here at work right now (not working) but she's been here for a entire year and STILL does not have a clue.

    How is she still here? How? She's completely useless, shows no understanding and makes no effort to understand. You'll show her how to do something... then you'll do it again a month later and then again a month later. She doesn't understand her own notes. She shows no initiative whatsoever. Drives me insane.

    EDIT - Oh, and she loves that game on the iPhone "where you throw paper in the bin"

    ... Is she Satan? Is she here to destroy us all? Feels like it.
    Edited by Gearskin at 27/10/11 @ 12:48

  • InsoFox #43 7 months ago

    around the time of Eurogamer Expo I was so annoyed with the DS that I was trying to sell it to anyone who would listen. But since then I've mellowed on it. Sure, it's collecting dust, and I should have waited, and it was a bit of a poor purchase decision for me, but hey. There's a few cool things coming out, and the promise of more Layton and Pheonix Wright is enough to just about keep me on board.

  • UncleLou #44 7 months ago

    EDIT - And I wish people would stop talking about iPhone games. Understand - Nintendo doesn't lose sales to iPhones. People with iPhones do not make a concious decision to suddenly NOT buy Nintendo handhelds. They never owned Nintendo handhelds in the first place

    Wrong. I had a DS, and the kind of quirky, original entertainment (which was what I liked most about the DS - games like Ouendan) is exactly the one I now find on the iPhone, although I'd argue that there's just as much, if not more, deep games on iOS.

    Like someone else has said already, people have their head in the sand about the quality of mobile games these days.

  • Pac-man-ate-my-wife #45 7 months ago

    @Gearskin

    I'm a long-term Nintendo fan since the SNES games and been a happy owner of a Gameboy SP and a DS yet I've decided not to bother with a 3DS largely because of my iPhone.

    I'm a older gamer - mid-30s - but can still play a great deal on my 360 and those games that do grab my attention get a lot of time devoted to them and usually get completed (RDR, Portal 2 and currently Arkham City at full price; Limbo, Costume Quest and Braid on XBLA).

    My iPhone has the right balance of pick-up-and-play and 'hardcore' (I hate the term) games at a excellent price that mean I don't need a 3DS. Obviously Zelda and Mario are drawing my attention, but the outlay and game cost don't justify the price imho.

    So I'm one of those people who, in the past, would've happily picked up a 3DS. Now I don't currently see the need.
    Edited by Pac-man-ate-my-wife at 27/10/11 @ 13:34

  • UncleLou #46 7 months ago

    @Subquest So you enjoyed your DS so much, and owned so many of the best games on it, that you find yourself sated by games on iPhone?

    ... Then you talk about casuals. Dude... you sound like a casual.

    Because the DS was the home of the hardcore gamer...

  • Canyarion #47 7 months ago

    I love how people keep talking about how great the Vita is, even before it's out. You'd think the Vita already sold 10 million units.

  • fatbob1080 #48 7 months ago

    It might have sold 6.68 million but I bet 6.67 million are now gathering dust in 2nd hand shops. I traded mine in for a ds lite. 3ds sucks! I'll wait for a redesign

  • darkmorgado #49 7 months ago

    @GamesProgrammer

    Erm, they ARE selling it at an insane loss.

  • smelly #50 7 months ago

    ARTICLE : 3DS is outselling one of the best selling games consoles of all time
    FANBOYS : Nintendo are T'DOOMED!!!!

  • darkmorgado #51 7 months ago

    Post deleted at 09:51:51 12-12-2011

  • SpaceMidget75 Verified Senior Software Developer, Minerva Computer Services #52 7 months ago

    @Gearskin You can add me to the list of people who own a DS but have now started gaming on my Android (along with PC and 360) when I feel like crashing on the sofa with a portable or when I'm on a train.

  • CHAZBIGPOTATO #53 7 months ago

    Good, my poor son still hasn't had any streetpass thingies yet.

  • C.CFanboy #54 7 months ago

    @fatbob1080

    Mine is used everyday. Its not like the Kinects people bought.

  • JuanKerr #55 7 months ago

    Can you get iPhones on a £12 per month contract like my Vodafone one? I suspect not (although I could be wrong).

    Suddenly, iPhone gaming doesn't seem as cheap as everyone says.

  • Subquest #56 7 months ago

    @C.CFanboy sadly Mario Kart on the iphone would be a bit of a mess, I've said before I don't like touchscreen attempts as analog sticks or dpads etc.

    Thankfully I've a whole host of games in different genres that suit the device perfectly. All on demand, always in my pocket. I'll live.

  • Subquest #57 7 months ago

    @JuarKerr - uh huh, because there's no use for an iphone besides playing games is there?

  • smelly #58 7 months ago

    Fanboys : iphone games are only $1!
    Me : There's a BIG difference between paying $1 for the likes of angry shittards where you're expected to pay another $3 to help you cheat past a level you're stuck on, etc.. And something big and complex like a zelda/mario/etc game.

  • knocker #59 7 months ago

    @juan

    I suppose an ipod touch would do the job as well. Personally I can't get on with ios as a gaming device, other than fairly static games. Still waiting for some killer apps to force my hand on the 3ds

  • Gecks #60 7 months ago

    @Gearskin
    i ditched my DS (and indeed, the idea of ever buying a portable console again) for iphone gaming. Broken Sword, zoo keeper, esp galuda II, geodefence, osmos, sword & sorcery, game dev story, etc - all for <£2 or thereabouts.

    i'd love to play the next 3DS mario game, but iphone gaming is hardly slumming it. many games as good as the best the 'real' handhelds have to offer.
    Edited by Gecks at 27/10/11 @ 14:16

  • darkmorgado #61 7 months ago

    @Monsieur_Blade

    We're not in a recession and haven't been for a good couple of years now. I really wish people would stop throwing that word around when they clearly don't understand what it means.

  • 32768Colours #62 7 months ago

    This is all very lovely for Nintendo - seriously well done to them - but for me the 3DS ship has already sailed.

    For me the biggest criticism lies - predictably - with the games. Not the lack of them as such, although it certainly doesn't help improve matters. The problem I have is that the 3D element so far seems to add little more than a visual sheen to existing game types, making its USP comparably much less potent than that of the original DS.

    Its that contradiction in the 3DS's design which makes the handheld a hard sell for me regardles of its retail success or lack thereof. I just don't yet know what I'm really buying into.

    With the Vita, I know I'm essentially getting a handheld PS3. With an iOS device, a multimedia device with access to cheap and cheerful games en masse. But what about the 3DS? Am I now buying little more than a core-focused suped-up DS? Or will the 3D capabilities enable previously unimaginable ways to play games? I guess time will tell, although on the strength of recent events, I'd say even Nintendo are struggling to decide.

    Whether any of that has a detrimental effect on overall sales is debatable, but its certainly been enough to put me off.

  • geox30 #63 7 months ago

    I own an Android phone.It has some fun games,not so many as iOS obviously.When we are talking games on a smartphone/tablet,there is key factor to be taken in mind:physical buttons.You just can't play a fast action game without them.I can understand people that prefer phones for gaming cause of money console games cost or non gamers that like facebook style games.The games that make sense to me and are a descent experience on a phone are mostly puzzle games.But these are just time wasters and not a game with plot,action,cut scenes and all other things we love in gaming.Comparing the overall gaming experience between phones and portable consoles is stupid.
    Edited by geox30 at 27/10/11 @ 14:18

  • knocker #64 7 months ago

    F'k it. It's a games console. I love games consoles. It would actually need to carry a risk of causing serious permanent injury to stop me wanting it.

    I've not actually given in yet. But it has a kind of inevitability.

  • Pac-man-ate-my-wife #65 7 months ago

    @smelly

    I tend to find it's the fanboys who dismiss iPhone gaming whereas those of us who are into games in general, rather than platforms, who realise that iOS has a huge and varied library.
    Edited by Pac-man-ate-my-wife at 27/10/11 @ 15:06

  • SpaceMidget75 Verified Senior Software Developer, Minerva Computer Services #66 7 months ago

    @geox30 It's not about comparing them. 3DS games are clearly 'better' and having buttons makes a difference for a lot of games. It doesn't mean that given my portable gaming needs that a Smartphone is an unsuitable as a replacement.

    That's ultimately what's being discussed here. Does phone gaming eat into the handheld market? Given some of the comments on here - yes, yes it does.

    @JuarKerr Are you just ignoring the fact that we all had/need the phones anyway and didn't spend £20 a month for a gaming device?

  • Pac-man-ate-my-wife #67 7 months ago

    @JuanKerr

    You can get a iPhone 3GS (which will play the vast majority of iPhone games) on contract for £20 a month. Admittedly it's not £12 a month, but it's not far off.
    Edited by Pac-man-ate-my-wife at 27/10/11 @ 14:58

  • ronorra #68 7 months ago

    @Gearskin That is really a funny comment when I see people being negged for giving their opinion wich is not the same as the Nintendo zealots would like to see. TBH Nintendo has the worst fanboys ever.

  • Skywalker2345 #69 7 months ago

    @Subdominator I don't think smartphones and tablets are in the same market as Vita and 3DS...or even original DS. There's very few real games on smartphones and tablets and the control scheme is not good. Real gamers don't play games on smartphones and tablets and little kids, primary market for DS and 3DS, still want to play on 3DS. That's the problem with Vita, they're not really gonna sell to the little kids.

  • Subquest #70 7 months ago

    @Skywalker2345: Real gamers don't play games on smartphones and tablets

    What the fuck is a 'real' gamer? Are the games which smartphones and tablets excel at not real games? You're a blinkered fool if you think that, and in fact a real gamer would show an interest in what is massive coalmine of varied and inventive games.

    I would also counter that ios/android games are more in touch with what mobile gaming is all about, how and for how long it's played, than the traditional big two, whose headline acts always seem to consist of handheld reimaginings of their big brother equivalents.
    Edited by Subquest at 27/10/11 @ 15:31

  • Kanjin #71 7 months ago

    I feel like I can't say anything derisive about Vita, because look at what people said about the DS and how it'd fail compare to the PSP, yeah that happened.

  • Skywalker2345 #72 7 months ago

    @Subdominator Same price point? You could do some research before posting a random made-up fact. Nintendo DS launched 149.99 US dollars. 100 dollars less than the 249.99 US dollars 3DS launch.

  • Pac-man-ate-my-wife #73 7 months ago

    There will always be genres and titles that are the strong points of any device, however iOS really does have deep 'real' games that deliver a 'proper' gaming experience. However I'd argue that the format is also great at doing what the other portables don't which is bite-sized snippets of gaming-crack that fit with your life.

  • knocker #74 7 months ago

    So if you want something to play while you're taking a dump - ios is your thing.

    If you want it to play on a two hour commute 3ds.

    But what if you need a shit while on your commute ?



    (Edit: this was a trick question of course. If you must use toilet on a train it's important not to touch *anything*)
    Edited by knocker at 27/10/11 @ 17:08

  • Timotei #75 7 months ago

    @Skywalker2345

    Might wanna factor in 7 years of inflation and fluctuating silicon prices there, buddy.
    Edited by Timotei at 27/10/11 @ 15:44

  • eviroboy #76 7 months ago

    Not bad for a so called failure. Keep on the track you're on Nintendo :)

  • darkmorgado #77 7 months ago

    @Skywalker2345

    Erm, you realise that prices will go up due to inflation, right? 149.99USD back then would be a lot more now once you factor that in.

  • knocker #78 7 months ago

    @darkmorgado about 20% off the top of my head. (assuming US/UK interest rates have kept in parity)

    Would reckon Yen/USD exchange rate would have a bigger impact. Thats a guess tho

  • Vyggo #79 7 months ago

    We have an android phone, android tablet and iphone in our house but my son really wants a 3DS for his birthday and I am about to give in. He likes playing games on those platforms, but nothing like the joy he got from mario on the DS (until it broke) and the joy he'll probably get from the mario 3ds and mario kart. And personally I wouldn't mind playing the zelda game on there :)

    I would love for those games to come to other platforms, but that's likely never going to happen. I would also love for the 3ds games to be sold at lower prices, but I am pretty sure these games will be worth their money to myson who will play the games religiously (like I did back in the day).

  • geox30 #80 7 months ago

    @SpaceMidget75
    no one can deny that phone gaming eat into the handheld market.I think that exactly because of this,these numbers that the 3DS has made are even more impressive.And if you consider the major lack of good games,it makes it almost a triumph.I just wish that smartphone competition would lower software prices at the 20-30€ range.

  • levitate #81 7 months ago

    I had this on pre-order but cancelled it when they didn't have any interesting games on day 1. I might still get one in the future but the immediate desire isn't big enough. I'm pretty sure the sales would have been even higher if they actually had anything interesting and fun to play on it.

  • Monsieur_Blade #82 7 months ago

    @darkmorgado

    Well this article seems to disagree with you my friend:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/oct/27/double-dip-recession-in-uk-possible-says-mpc-member?newsfeed=true

  • Rev.StuartCampbell #83 7 months ago

    "Can you get iPhones on a £12 per month contract like my Vodafone one? I suspect not (although I could be wrong).

    Suddenly, iPhone gaming doesn't seem as cheap as everyone says."

    Oh DO shush, you muppet.

    iPhone 4S 64GB model with 50 top games: £800 ish.
    3DS with 50 top games (when there are eventually 50 games for it): £2,100 or so.

    (Plus a hefty chunk more money for a camera, a phone, a satnav and a media player.)

  • Rev.StuartCampbell #84 7 months ago

    "iphone games are not real games games like Mario 3d land are real games games like game dev story and angry birds are not real games"

    Kindly define "real games". Not with a list like some kind of tit, but by explaining to us the characteristics that make a game "real" and another game "not real".

    Thanks in advance,
    yr pal, Uncle Stu.

  • Sabreman64 #85 7 months ago

    Meh. I'm still not buying a 3DS. I've barely played on my fat DS in the last couple of years, and I have a pile of unplayed DS games. So I can't really justify splashing out a couple of hundred quid on another Nintendo handheld and games that I'll probably end up barely playing. Sorry, Nintendo.

  • Subquest #86 7 months ago

    @diddy1978

    Iphone is not cheaper it is nearly 500 pounds
    I never said it was cheaper. But it is better value, given that it does many more things than playing games. I use my phone probably 20+ times a day, every day, without fail, for the last 17 months. In terms of value it's probably the lowest £ per use of any gadget i've ever owned.

    bet in your opinion the psvita is a step back as it uses cartridges like the 3ds am i right?
    Yes, I do! Well done! I think the vita will struggle for sales too, given that it doesn't appear to offer unique experiences. A home console in your hand? I'll just play my home console thanks.

    games like game dev story and angry birds are not real games
    The sheer arrogance! You name two games out of a library of tens of thousands. Rest assured, diddy1978, that there are other, less well known original & deep games, that I enjoy immensely. Hence my not needing a 3DS. Also, there's so many of them released each month it's hard to keep track. Wouldn't that be a nice problem to have, eh diddy1978?