Out of the Frying Pan? Nintendo 3DS Sells 4 Million Units in U.S. - glassponot1968

Welcome back to the landed estate of happy press stories, Nintendo: The companionship says it's now sold-out four cardinal 3DS game systems in the U.S., adding that its nobelium-glasses 3D handheld has yet sold "more in its first nine months than the Wii did." Totally, Nintendo sold 12 million total hardware units — Wii and 3DS sales combined — in the U.S. in 2011.

A couple last minute sales blockbusters probably helped: Comprehensive Mario 3D Shore (discharged November 13) and Mario Kart 7 (released Dec 4) each sold-out over one million units in the U.S., says Nintendo, comme il faut "the quickest-selling titles in the history of their respective franchises."

The 3DS, which debuted in Japan in February and the U.S. in March, was slow up off the forget, due in part to a lackluster computer software lineup, prompting Nintendo to slash the price of the system in mid-August, dropping information technology from $250 to $170 — an unprecedented move for a system not six months old at the time. Nintendo also attempted to mollify customers who paid $250 for the system aside offering them 20 footloose downloadable games from the Nintendo eShop.

The 3DS's quaternity jillio U.S. sales figure brings the organisation succeeding with Japanese sales estimates, which also topped quaternity million at December's restrained. I'm not sure enough how the gaming demographics work out in either country in terms of who buys what, merely information technology's Worth noting the universe of Japan is slenderly much one-third of the U.S.'s, making the Japanese sales material body theoretically more impressive.

For Wii-watchers, Nintendo says the Wii sold 4.5 million units, and that The Legend of Zelda: Skywards Sword as wel broke the nonpareil trillion units sold mark, though that number's actually rather dullsville given the Wii's install cornerstone and Zelda's pedigree. Equal if Nintendo included planetary sales, they'd pale in comparison to numbers like Late Warfare 3's, a game that topped 6.5 million copies globally during its initial 24 hours connected sale. Nintendo adds that Mario Kart Wii reached 11 one thousand thousand units sold, and that New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo DS had reached 10 million units sold.

Nintendo says its install base in the U.S. is straightaway 39 million for the Wii and 51 meg for the DS family. The last mentioned aggregates fundamentally different systems to come up with an impressive figure of speech, but that's stigmatization for you — Sony used to mask the PS3's poor sales by adding risen everything PlayStation proprietary (PS3, PS2, PSP), too.

Is Nintendo back? We'll see. The company took a epochal $927 million loss in October 2011, double the loss figure it foreseen high summertime. One example Nintendo's hopefully learned: You pauperization majuscule games to sell a arrangement, particularly when its select feature — spectacles-free 3D — tends to be touch and go under (move your brain operating theatre the system as little as an inch or two and the 3D effect's ruined).

Fingers crossed for Kyd Icarus, Nonmigratory Evil: Revelations and Golden Geared wheel Solid: 3D Snake Eater, all due soon.

[Update: A past version of this story catalogued Mario Company and Pokémon as upcoming 3DS games, but Nintendo says PokéPark 2 and Mario Party 9 will be coming out for the Wii this fourth part, not the 3DS.]

For more, have a look at our Nintendo 3DS review and our look at eight of the system's first games.

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Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/473217/out_of_the_frying_pan_nintendo_3ds_sells_4_million_units_in_u_s_.html

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