The JP lineup is pretty great but very few games have been localized yet (it's even worse in europe), I'd suggest waiting a bit before buying one unless there are already titles you NEED to play now.
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3DS nears 6 million units sold in US; 22 million shipped globally
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The JP lineup is pretty great but very few games have been localized yet (it's even worse in europe), I'd suggest waiting a bit before buying one unless there are already titles you NEED to play now.
Approximately 1 million times better.
Which still isn't nearly as good as the DS library, but it's good.
Duane Cunningham
Member
Or a killer app like Mario Kart DS (and to a lesser extent Animal Crossing and Metroid Hunters).
It's hard to envision that world now, seven years later, but they were like "hey everybody, you can play people ONLINE! On a handheld! And the DS could do it all along, we just didn't put out a game for it until now!"
It's funny to think that a lot of people didn't even have Wi-Fi in their house yet and went to McDonalds or wherever to play MK at first.
grimshawish
Banned
Its good but lacks variety. Basically you'll pick up all the games coming out, but most of them are very high quality.
My line up:
- Super Street Fighter IV
- Kid Icarus Uprising (GOTY)
- Super Mario 3D Land (just amazing - thats not hyperbole)
- Resident Evil Revelations (another great great game)
- Mario Kart 7 (a good Mario Kart title, nothing too special - online is alot of fun though)
- NSMB 2 (main attraction here is honestly DLC which is really fun, single player is 'decent'; probably the weakest game in the line up though)
- Layton - Miracle Mask (3D well implemented but not far in it yet.
- Zelda 3D (Its Ocarina of time and is a really good port; some early 3D ghosting issues against blacks/white colours, this isn't a game wide problem as fixes/tricks are implemented in all games since then)
E-Shop:
- Pullblox/Pushmo (Second best game on the system)
- Fallblox/Crashmo (Sequel, fucking hard so far - good stuff)
- Mutant Mudds (really good fun little platformer - looks great)
- Mighty Switch Force (not completed but what I've played has been a big disappointment for me)
- 3D Colors - fun to mess around with.
- Freakyforms (no longer available, ignore the retail box shit - its a decent cheap game)
- PicrossE (nice time waster, nothing special)
- Liberation Maiden (I'd say miss this out)
- VVVVVV (its a great game, can't say much more than that - looks great on the system)
Seriously. Get a 3DS XL if you've got the money and have the money to keep buying the games. Theres a back catalogue now so your sorted for a good while. All these games have a lot of play value.
OS seems better than the Wii U lol. Just needs some friends list updating/Miiverse and its sorted.
As a huge Nintendo nerd, I'm 99% sure it won't, at all. But I think it'll do good enough.
It's highly likely to reach 30 millions in just 2 years.
Better than good <3DS sales> aren't that great
KillerMan91
Member
It's already behind DS in Japan and gap is widening each week.
chertipros
Member
Hopefully the 3DS and its successor can keep having success even if the wii u underperforms. At this point I value Nintendo handhelds more than consoles and It'd suck for Nintendo to stop making them
Chet Rippo
Member
Why aren't you playing Paper Mario?
Very true, it's just interesting to go back and look at what the general consensus was. The negativity around the 3ds was quite strong. Turned out to be a pretty strong software driven handheld though.
Duane Cunningham
Member
I've definitely played 3DS more than Vita so far, although the Vita is going to get played a hell of a lot more for the next few weeks as soon as those crazy free PS+ games drop later today.
olimpia84
Member
The difference is night and day. Launch lineup was pretty bad but now the 3DS library has plenty of decent games and a few must haves.
grimshawish
Banned
Got to agree. DS outperformed the Wii both hardware and software.
I always though touch was better than motion for interactive controls - looks like Nintendo did too
If its original Zelda holds up it might be competing with the Gamecube for me software wise
Magicpaint
Member
Yet it's still doing great there. That says more about how well the DS did over there than anything else.
BrokenEchelon
Banned
Surely they could celebrate this milestone by releasing some new colors for the 3DS XL so I can go buy one. Please?
evilromero
Member
I'm still waiting for that all-white 3DS XL.
SolarPowered
Member
Only six million out of 22 are from the US? Goddamn the handheld industry is tanking something fierce here.
Duane Cunningham
Member
I could go for a big ol' firmware update that brings MiiVerse over. Too bad it won't be this year.
Magicpaint
Member
It won't happen often but I wouldn't rule it out. How many people expected the DS to do that well afterall?
ScreenSplitter
Member
The WiiU shouldn't have any effect on the 3DS. Even if the WiiU completely fails, the 3DS has proved it's got a place in the market, and it's profitable to keep making games for it.
Also yeah, Kid Icarus: Uprising, 3D Land and Pushmo, top 3 for sure.
Monster Hunter 4 and pretty much when Game Freak stop messing around.
I've always thought of GAF as pretty pro-Nintendo really. The hype trains Nibel puts us all on are crazy rides. I mostly saw the whole "3DS is PSP" thing from Kotaku, which was typical tabloid stuff.
Well, true, but you really have to consider the source. Asking GAF what Nintendo's future holds, is like asking conservatives what Obama's future holds. You're going to get a pretty bleak outlook.
KillerMan91
Member
Yep. In japan it's still doing great. DS numbers just were so damn abnormal in Japan.
Messing around? They didn't made all those 3D models just to charge us $15 for a Pokedex app
I hope
the sales competition with the wii u is going to be amazing.
grimshawish
Banned
So:
September 30 Japan = 7,500,000 (rounding for clarity)
September 30 US = 6,000,000
Total: 13,500,000
So thats:
September 30 Elsewhere: 8.5 million units.
Vast vast majority of that will be PAL land. Reggie really needs to step it up.
September 30 Japan = 7,500,000 (rounding for clarity)
September 30 US = 6,000,000
Total: 13,500,000
So thats:
September 30 Elsewhere: 8.5 million units.
Vast vast majority of that will be PAL land. Reggie really needs to step it up.
Yeah. But as others have said, that's more of a testament to how insanely well the DS did, rather than how poorly the 3DS is doing. That's not to say that it shouldn't be selling better in North America and Europe.
That is true, the amount of negativity around the Wii U is astounding. Some of it is very deserving, but the hyperbole often gets way out of hand.
However, that is off topic, so I won't go there.
SolarPowered
Member
Nintendo wouldn't stop making them even if the situation were worse in the US. They still sell a ton in Japan.
Bending_Unit_22
Member
Some did, it only sold a little more than the GBA on an annual average. Though the GBA would never have been able to survive 7 years (nor should it have, it is the most perfectly designed handheld given the limits handhelds must live under imho). That being said the DS/PSP were the vanguard of smartphones which is gone, so no it's not possible to see another DS again.
DS did really bad in the US in the same time frame, because the GBA lived on. Now the DS is still doing well in the US. Give it a few years, though yes Reggie still needs to step the f*** up in more ways than one.
metalslimer
Member
Nintendo planned on selling 17 million this year so they are really far behind.
Messing around? They didn't made all those 3D models just to charge us $15 for a Pokedex app
I hope
Game Freak didn't make those models, Creatures, Inc did.
ScreenSplitter
Member
Messing around? They didn't made all those 3D models just to charge us $15 for a Pokedex app
I hope
Oh they're not, in fact they're using them in the 3DS Mystery Dungeon title, I just didn't buy their whole "The DS has a better install base" thing when making Black/White 2. Got to move on at some point, and people would buy a toaster if it played the new Pokemon game.
There will now be a toast Pokemon called Crumbo in Gen VI
Great Job NOA!
It's gonna close the gap during the holidays as DS already had the second one launch aligned, but it's gonna widen soon after even if MH4 and DQVIIr are coming out soon.
It's gonna close the gap during the holidays as DS already had the second one launch aligned, but it's gonna widen soon after even if MH4 and DQVIIr are coming out soon.
Supermanisdead
Member
I'm pretty sure wii u has already outsold vita.
Chet Rippo
Member
You're such a pessimist.
Because a 3DS hasn't magically appeared in my hands yet
Find a way then!
My dream has been crushed. 2D Sprites it is.
Not that I care too much. I'd buy any Pokemon they throw at me
OldJadedGamer
Banned
I'm waiting on Animal Crossing to buy mine.
ShellyDeKiller
Member
Then it would've been more expensive, they'd lose more money, it would've sold worse.
ScreenSplitter
Member
My dream has been crushed. 2D Sprites it is.
Not that I care too much. I'd buy any Pokemon they throw at me
They had really better not. I hate nostalgic sprite diehard love.
Chet Rippo
Member
What did I ever do to you?
grimshawish
Banned
Meh. If there dropping sprites it better be well styles and not fucking slow 'show the whole move' animation attacks.
Nintendo really should have pushed for Fire Emblem, Luigi's Mansion, Brain Training, Animal Crossing and Monster Hunter in the west this year.
There's no excuse for not getting Fire Emblem and Brain Training out in time for the holiday season as they were released months ago in Japan.
There's no excuse for not getting Fire Emblem and Brain Training out in time for the holiday season as they were released months ago in Japan.
Allan Holdsworth
Member
First time in years NoA doesn't do a special edition for the holidays. The Flame Red bundle is just a recycled version of last years', made worse since the game is pre-installed. No XL bundles. I mean it wouldn't save the 3DS in NA but would it hurt to at least try?
ScreenSplitter
Member
I'm aware Colleseum/XD sucked, but just because it hasn't been done well doesn't mean it can't be done.
I just don't think the moving sprites are sufficient anymore. Black/White showed they wanted to go into a 3D space.
I agree, relying on Paper Mario so much is bad.
grimshawish
Banned
I agree; but this is why people fear the lose of sprites more than anything.