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[L~A]

During the last investor meeting, Iwata said the 3DS would probably become the 1st platform ever with 4 different 2 million sellers in 5 months. Well, it did happen, and Nintendo just put out a PR to break the news.

Obviously, the four 2 million sellers aren't surprising:

Youkai Watch 2
Super Smash Bros. for 3DS
Monster Hunter 4G
Pokémon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire

Sales data goes up to Dec. 7, so that means that Pokémon OR/AS reached 2m (including digital sales) this week-end.

Number of 2 million sellers in Japan per platform:

3DS: 10
DS: 14
Wii: 8

Source

 

[Pennywise83]

3DS will have 5 multi-million sellers in 6 months, considering YW2.5: record after record!

Also, this confirms SSB has had 2m shipped so far; trackers have it around 1.85m. Nintendo shipped units for the holiday season.

 

[Blablurn]

Congratulations! Its good to see dedicated handheld games succeeding.

 

[Hero of Legend]

Still doomed. Since 1889 in fact!

 

[Inuhanyou]

That's where the Japanese market is by and large outside of mobile...

Unfortunately, that means every other console or handheld is doomed

 

[Phazon]

Congratulations, glad to see that a dedicated handheld can still have succes these days

 

[Super Stardust]

 

[mazpratim]

Do we need a reverse chalkboard?

 

[Phamit]

Oh dammit Nintendo, stop being successful and give me Advance Wars with Micro transactions for my Ipad already

 

[Diprosalic]

nice to see that at least one traditional platform is (sort of) successful in japan.

 

[Alrus]

YW2.5 is coming for another 2 millions fo sho.

 

[Hero of Legend]

nice to see that at least one traditional platform is (sort of) successful in japan.

Sort of? Just because it's not at DS or Wii numbers doesn't mean it's not a big success IMO, I mean this thread proves it.

 

[SalvaPot]

Hopefully this funds more Marth and Villager Amiibos.

And the New 3DS.

But seriously, congratz Big N!

 

[marimorimo]

And to think that gaming in Japan is dead!

 

[Zeyphersan]

Big numbers, happy to see it!

 

[Kageshinzo]

Jesus Christ, Nintendo, why don't you just die down already. We need those games in mobiles and tablets goddammit.

 

[JoeM86]

Good god, I did a search and couldn't see this thread.

This forum's search sucks

 

[L~A]

YW2.5 is coming for another 2 millions fo sho.

True, but it won't be within 5 months, sadly. Well, it'd need to sell 2 millions right out of the gate. Kinda insane to have 2 games of the same franchise sell 2 millions within the same quarter, especially since the 2nd game is just a 3rd version of the 1st one.

 

[cacildo]

Let me ask you all something: the original Nintendo Ds was a huge hit, yet it had a BIG piracy problem.

I mean, living in brasil, i cant tell you nobody ever saw a single NDS original cartrige here. Only... what were the names? D4? Supercard?

Anyway, now Nintendo has the 3ds, and even with recent efforts, we can all agree there´s basically no piracy on it.

Do you think this situation makes the Nintendo 3DS a lot more profitable than the original DS?

 

[Herb Alpert]

Jesus Christ, Nintendo, why don't you just die down already. We need those games in mobiles and tablets goddammit.

lol.
The beast won't die. It would better go taxi or love hotel again than put its games elsewhere.

Pretty good numbers indeed. Iwata probably just saved his head.

 

[JoeM86]

True, but it won't be within 5 months, sadly. Well, it'd need to sell 2 millions right out of the gate. Kinda insane to have 2 games of the same franchise sell 2 millions within the same quarter, especially since the 2nd game is just a 3rd version of the 1st one.

The fact there's only one version rather than two will have an impact on sales as well, thanks to the people who buy both, and enhanced versions of Pokémon always sell less so that'll likely happen with Youkai Watch, too

 

[Mysterious]

Let me ask you all something: the original Nintendo Ds was a huge hit, yet it had a BIG piracy problem.

I mean, living in brasil, i cant tell you nobody ever saw a single NDS original cartrige here. Only... what were the names? D4? Supercard?

Anyway, now Nintendo has the 3ds, and even with recent efforts, we can all agree there´s basically no piracy on it.

Do you think this situation makes the Nintendo 3DS a lot more profitable than the original DS?

No. In general, globally, DS still pushed magnitudes more software than 3DS is doing.

Also, DS had better hardware profit margins.

 

[Diprosalic]

Sort of? Just because it's not at DS or Wii numbers doesn't mean it's not a big success IMO, I mean this thread proves it.

oh LTD yeah for sure. i just meant at the moment (or this year) it's not doing amazingly well.

 

[Rembrandt]

Let me ask you all something: the original Nintendo Ds was a huge hit, yet it had a BIG piracy problem.

I mean, living in brasil, i cant tell you nobody ever saw a single NDS original cartrige here. Only... what were the names? D4? Supercard?

Anyway, now Nintendo has the 3ds, and even with recent efforts, we can all agree there´s basically no piracy on it.

Do you think this situation makes the Nintendo 3DS a lot more profitable than the original DS?

Nah, the DS sold 150+ million. All the piracy in the world couldn't make that unprofitable. Also the software sales as someone else pointed out. Has to be above 200 million now.

Congrats to Nintendo. Continuing to prove naysayers wrong.

 

[Azuran]

And some people were wondering why they decided to make two Smash Bros. versions this time around.

The Ice Climbers were sacrificed for the greater good.

 

[SalvaPot]

Let me ask you all something: the original Nintendo Ds was a huge hit, yet it had a BIG piracy problem.

I mean, living in brasil, i cant tell you nobody ever saw a single NDS original cartrige here. Only... what were the names? D4? Supercard?

Anyway, now Nintendo has the 3ds, and even with recent efforts, we can all agree there´s basically no piracy on it.

Do you think this situation makes the Nintendo 3DS a lot more profitable than the original DS?

Its better for Nintendo, because Nintendo makes most of its profit in software, not in hardware. That is, they get far more money if you buy $200 worth of games than if you buy a $200 console.

But is it more profitable than the DS altogether? Hard to say, but I don't think so, since even with the piracy problem the amount of hits they produced was bigger and Nintendo had to sell the 3DS at a loss for a while, something that never happened with the DS.

 

[Pila]

Doomed. ©

 

[mazpratim]

Let me ask you all something: the original Nintendo Ds was a huge hit, yet it had a BIG piracy problem.

I mean, living in brasil, i cant tell you nobody ever saw a single NDS original cartrige here. Only... what were the names? D4? Supercard?

Anyway, now Nintendo has the 3ds, and even with recent efforts, we can all agree there´s basically no piracy on it.

Do you think this situation makes the Nintendo 3DS a lot more profitable than the original DS?

DS software sales were magnitudes higher than 3DS

 

[mocolostrocolos]

Let me ask you all something: the original Nintendo Ds was a huge hit, yet it had a BIG piracy problem.

I mean, living in brasil, i cant tell you nobody ever saw a single NDS original cartrige here. Only... what were the names? D4? Supercard?

Anyway, now Nintendo has the 3ds, and even with recent efforts, we can all agree there´s basically no piracy on it.

Do you think this situation makes the Nintendo 3DS a lot more profitable than the original DS?

Nope.

Just look at DS' numbers. 150M consoles or the software sales.

 

[DR2K]

And some people were wondering why they decided to make two Smash Bros. versions this time around.

The Ice Climbers were sacrificed for the greater good.

No one wondered why.

 

[BocoDragon]

Remember in 2011 when the 3DS was a troubled bomb of a system?

 

[Azuran]

No one wondered why.

You obviously haven't browse some Smash Bros. forums where the crying echoes of some Smash Wii U fans can still be heard.

I should have actually said "dumb people".

 

[Zeyphersan]

And some people were wondering why they decided to make two Smash Bros. versions this time around.

The Ice Climbers were sacrificed for the greater good.

I'm pretty sure everyone knew the reason and that it was totally going to work

 

[timetokill]

Wow, that is really impressive stuff. And not all first-party, either!

 

[JoeM86]

DS software sales were magnitudes higher than 3DS

DS hardware sales were magnitudes higher because they tapped a then untapped market that has now shifted.

It's easy to use statistics without context to make things look bad

 

[protomouse]

Tero Kuittinen, post if you're ok.

 

[Crayolan]

SSB3DS sold 2m in Japan alone? That's crazy.

 

[mazpratim]

DS hardware sales were magnitudes higher because they tapped a then untapped market that has now shifted.

It's easy to use statistics without context to make things look bad

I wasn't making things look bad, that was a response to the user who asked if 3DS was more profitable than DS

 

[Hero of Legend]

Remember in 2011 when the 3DS was a troubled bomb of a system?

Do I ever. It really seemed hopeless then.

I really hope Wii U has a similar comeback. Problem is it doesn't have Pokemon, Dragon Quest, Monster Hunter (all as in exclusives tailor-made for Wii U), Youkai Watch (at the moment?), etc.

Nintendo needs aggression, letting Sony get Dragon Quest Heroes and even possibly DQ11 was a big mistake, when the IP for a long time felt like it was Nintendo's to keep.

 

[cw_sasuke]

Two 3rd party and first party games, nice.

 

[JoeM86]

I wasn't making things look bad, that was a response to the user who asked if 3DS was more profitable than DS

Ah fair enough.

Still on the mode where I see statistics as bad ever since I saw Siliconera compare X & Y's 11 months on sale with Black & White's 4 years and Diamond & Pearl's 8 years and claim there's clearly a "downward trend"

 

[Moor-Angol]

True, but it won't be within 5 months, sadly. Well, it'd need to sell 2 millions right out of the gate. Kinda insane to have 2 games of the same franchise sell 2 millions within the same quarter, especially since the 2nd game is just a 3rd version of the 1st one.

YW2.5 will be 2mln after 10 days


good for 3DS all those records even if hw sales are struggling

 

[L~A]

Nah, the DS sold 150+ million. All the piracy in the world couldn't make that unprofitable. Also the software sales as someone else pointed out. Has to be above 200 million now.

Congrats to Nintendo. Continuing to prove naysayers wrong.

200 millions? Nah, total software sales are almost at 1 billion (945m to be more precise).

The casual boom was something utterly nut, and there's probably not one console that'll be able to beat or even do as good as that... including the PS4. Not with how prominent mobile platforms have become.

 

[JoeM86]

YW2.5 will be 2mln after 10 days

I'm really not so sure. It took a few weeks to reach that with two versions. Here's just one game and it's not really that new. It'll be 1 million launch week at absolute best

 

[Theognosis]

Congrats Nintendo!

 

[Rembrandt]

200 millions? Nah, total software sales are almost at 1 billion (945m to be more precise).

The casual boom was something utterly nut, and there's probably not one console that'll be able to beat or even do as good as that... including the PS4. Not with how prominent mobile platforms have become.

holy shit, lol. that's insane. I figured it was a lot higher. I think that 200 million number was from 07.

 

[Pennywise83]

I'm really not so sure. It took a few weeks to reach that with two versions. Here's just one game and it's not really that new. It'll be 1 million launch week at absolute best

Predictions want YW2.5 around 2m in the first few days... The game is going to be huge.

YW2.5 will be 2mln after 10 days


good for 3DS all those records even if hw sales are struggling

Second fastest-selling hardware in Japan behind DS, and going to catch up PS2 and PSP: "struggling".

 

[JoeM86]

Predictions want YW2.5 around 2m in the first few days... The game is going to be huge.

It took Pokémon remakes 2 weeks to hit that. Youkai Watch isn't bigger than Pokémon. You're dreaming that a single enhanced version of Youkai Watch would do that.

 

[Pennywise83]

It took Pokémon remakes 2 weeks to hit that. Youkai Watch isn't bigger than Pokémon. You're dreaming that a single enhanced version of Youkai Watch would do that.

YW is still in its growing phase + holiday season + the movie is releasing in the same week + preorders are huge (COMGnet, Amazon plus many physical stores that stopped preorders a while ago) = the game is going to be huge. I'm not expecting "just above a million" in the debut week.

PS: I'm not dreaming, but L5 is surely living in a dream right now!

 

[Alrus]

It took Pokémon remakes 2 weeks to hit that. Youkai Watch isn't bigger than Pokémon. You're dreaming that a single enhanced version of Youkai Watch would do that.

The thing is, pre-orders are absolutely insane for this version, it's releasing around the same time as a YW movie that already broke multiple records regarding pre-ticket sales and it's the holidays. It seems the craze wasn't even at its peak when the original YW2 launched.

I don't think it's going to get a 2 mil opening (although that would be amazing), but it's obviously going to sell very very well.