Move over Game Boy Advance. See you later, DS and Wii. Nintendo now has a new record holder in terms of units sold in its home country in its first year: the 3DS. The Nintendo 3DS took less than one year (its birthday in Japan is February 26) to reach 5 million units sold in Japan. To put this in context: it took the original DS 56 weeks to cross the 5 million threshold; it took the Game Boy Advance 58 weeks. Worldwide, the 3DS has sold approximately 15 million units.
This is great news for Nintendo, which recently announced a huge annual operating loss of 45 billion yen ($575 million), the first ever for the Kyoto-based company. It's also evidence that contradicts the doomsayers who predicted dedicated gaming handhelds couldn't survive among smart phones and tablets.
My mariokart racer red DS still rocks....
ReplyDeleteIt looks like they just took over the lead in the last 2 months. Maybe that's where all that cash was going. They were buying up their own systems! Diabolical
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