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[Chris1964]

Nikkei

''3DS first shipment was 400k, it sold out''

http://www.nikkei.com/news/headline...9696E0E4E2E3828DE0E4E2E0E0E2E3E3E2E2E2E2E2E2;

 

[RoboPlato]

And so it begins.

 

[jman2050]

Well there goes that.

 

[DrForester]

 

[cw_sasuke]

bomba.....

 

[Sadist]

Iwata: *laughs*

 

[Cerebral Assassin]

Wow. What is the largest amount sold in a launch week(for comparison)?

 

[V_Ben]

Daaaaaaamn.

 

[TheOddOne]

Minutes?!? Goddamn.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

Meh, expected a million or more, Nintendo am doomed.

 

[wwm0nkey]

fuck not even an hour? Holy shit!

 

[sixteen-bit]

Beastly opening.

 

[Speevy]

Can someone alter this picture so that it's "3D"?

 

[Dresden]

Eh, took whole minutes to sell not even half a million. Unimpressed.

 

[Cerebral Assassin]

GIF needs to be updated with "It prints money in 3D!"

 

[rpmurphy]

Craziness! Second shipment coming in soon or no?

 

[MidnightScott]

We all knew this was gonna happen. Now to see if it happens in the west too.

 

[Ashuron]

Can someone alter this picture so that it's "3D"?

It has already been done. Don't have it saved though.

 

[ivysaur12]

Unreal. Simply unreal.

 

[zero_suit]

So predictable...good job Nintendo!

 

[UncleSporky]

GIF needs to be updated with "It prints money in 3D!"

 

[mehdi_san]

A few stores still have 3DSes available as of tonight, but yeah I guess they will reach 400k by the end of the weekend...

 

[Azure J]

Money. 3DS prints it.

Seriously, a matter of minutes? And I'm planning on trying to get one for the holidays in the U.S.?

I'm screwed. XD

 

[miksar]

Wow. What is the largest amount sold in a launch week(for comparison)?

If I remember correctly, GBA sold around 600k in its first several days on sale.

 

[Majine]

Why is it still the original DS?

We need a hybrid between that and this:

 

[Forkball]

I'm interested in the software numbers. Is Nintendogs + Cats our new overlords?

 

[JWong]

It's because of the cats and cats alone.

 

[slaughterking]

Is the article really talking about a matter of minutes?

 

[fernoca]

Only 400k?....Right guys?!?!!

Is the article really talking about a matter of minutes?

Minutes from "Japan time" maybe?

 

[Celine]

GIF needs to be updated with "It prints money in 3D!"

or
EDIT:
bah beaten.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Insaaaaaaaaane.

 

[DCharlie]

I got my (non preorder) machine around 4pm today - plenty of machines available. I'm sure the units are hard to come by right now but any idea that this was "sold out in minutes" is a bit off the mark

 

[Rollo Lawson]

i just preordered one. i feel like such a whore

 

[Chris1964]

Is the article really talking about a matter of minutes?

ができるなど出足は好調で、初日の販売分はほぼ完売したもようだ

EDIT: Now that I see it again maybe it doesn't mean minutes of hour. I'll edit the OP.

 

[KingDizzi]

Is the article really talking about a matter of minutes?

It's called exaggeration and it's not needed when a system sells 400k on launch day, if it did happen then the people employees must be robots or something. We all knew the 3DS would sell well, question is that how many can Nintendo manufacture?

 

[GQman2121]

The numbers by this time next week are going to be insane.

 

[olimpia84]

in minutes?? I find that hard to believe but congrats to Nintendo I guess

 

[Reallink]

Wow that is a paltry number of units to ship, especially coming off the DS--in Japan.

 

[faridmon]

400k? not impressed, Can't Nintendo ship more 3DSes since it is written all over it that its going to sell in matter of minuttes. But no, Nintendo is being conservative...

 

[Yoshi]

They didn't quantify the minutes .

 

[MisterHero]

I have a new idea for a gif

Iwata and Shiggy use the AR to create more money from a single bill

 

[Speevy]

The customers were scanned with a high frequency laser which processed the bar code implanted within each one of them, automatically extracting the desired amount from their bank accounts.

400,000 units of the 3DS were then teleported from shipping facilities to their hands.

You're right, it was more like seconds.

 

[gimz]

did anyone not seeing this was coming?

 

[matmanx1]

I don't remember where I read it but 400k was the day 1 allocation and the launch period allocation was 1-1.5million for Japan. I think the easy prediction at this point is that they sell all of those ;-)

 

[EatChildren]

For comparisons sake, Nintendo shipped 400,000 Wiis to Japan for launch, and it took two days to sell ~370,000.

 

[Jive Turkey]

Good ol' Nintendo holding back stock as usual.

 

[Ruud_Luiten]

1Isn't 400k a bit little

 

[Celine]

As expected.

 

[Cygnus X-1]

New shipment tomorrow, right? How much?

 

[Shalashaska161]

It's going to be interesting to see if Nintendo can keep up with demand. I can easily see the 3DS having a year of shortages like the Wii did.