The trend of the 3DS outside of a couple months has been significantly down YoY Ryng. You know that. A ~20% weekly bump MoM from June to July while also being up YoY is, in my opinion, pretty impressive given the state the system has been in the market the entire rest of the year. You are free to disagree. We are talking about July here Ryng. Historically speaking this isnt exactly a big sales month for gaming HW. I'm placing more stock in historical trends where as you are placing more stock in recent trends in other international markets it will be fun finding out which wins out this month.
I don't think so honestly. To me, the only trend is that 3DS withouth April always did over the expectations or at least didn't was not disappoint.
January: nothing to say, a bad month which was expect (well i personally though was gonna be even worse)
February: Waaaaaaaaaaaay better than the expectations, Fire Emblem fates and Pokémon first gen made an unexpect strong boost
March: About the same of February, which is impressive considering March is a worse month and February got two strong release
April: well in that case was a disappoint month, yes.
May: up MOM even if April is a worse month, that's only with a $20 pricedrop for the 2DS which is basically the model most people hate, i didn't expect an increase MOM (even if in the end was still a bad month but that's not the point, we talk about better/worse performance than we though)
June: up YOY, and 70% up MOM, i mean, nothing to say
Basically 35% down YOY is great if we considering the first half of year was the release of the New 3DS which boosted the handheld to almost 400K in a single month.
Withouoth February and March, 3DS didn't do that bad YOY.
I mean, in some months 3DS was also doing better/close to 2014 or even 2013 in February:
February
2013 - 189,000
2014 - 153,000
2016 - 176,000
March
2014 - 159,000
2016 - 171,000
June
2014 - 152,000
2015 - 125,000
2016 - 130-135K
I don't know what people expect, but at the start of the year i though 2016 was gonna be a death year for 3DS, not at Wii U level but yeah nowhere close to old years for example, while in my opinion is holding pretty good.
Again July and August are gonna be a surprise month for many people with 3DS, all signs show that 3DS is gonna have strongs months:
In Italy was up MOM by 33%, in UK the week of Pokémon GO release 3DS sales more than doubled and then continued to increase, and for the US, we have Amazon which show 3DS is gonna have a close month to PS4 in July (this even if in the last week 3DS was sold out on Amazon, and not in the others stores) and in August is doing WAY better.
