Neat. It makes the DS's first year look bad, but it exploded later on. Will be interesting to see how 3DS compares in the long run.
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Nintendo 3DS sells 4.5 million in first year on sale in America
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Neat. It makes the DS's first year look bad, but it exploded later on. Will be interesting to see how 3DS compares in the long run.
Empyrean Heaven
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And yet the company is about to have the worst year in their history.
Worth it? Not really.
Worth it? Not really.
Gamer @ Heart
Member
That is extremely shortsighted. Do you know how business works?
StreetsAhead
Member
Mario Tennis
Luigi's Mansion
Kid Icarus
Fire Emblem (?)
2D Mario
Animal Crossing
Kingdom Hearts 3D
Lego City Stories
Paper Mario
Brain Training (?)
I predict more success.
Fixed.
Yup cuz Wii U is expected to bomb, right
Yeah they should have totally given up on trying to save their most important business. What kind of shortsighted comment is this?
pieatorium
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I'd assume he is talking about financial year which will finnish well before WiiU is out.
Metallix87
Member
This is absolutely absurd.
...And then..."Worth it? Not really."
suddenly that Dalek levetates
A Human Becoming
More than a Member
What did they sell in January?
We don't know.
Why doesn't nintendo try to reach out to other markets like india, brazil , china etc?
Plus what are the prices for the DS in the US now? I think they shouldn't have discontinued the lite and kept it going for $79 or so. If the ds is as supported as the ps2 was even with the release of the ps3 ds could have 200Million right?
Plus what are the prices for the DS in the US now? I think they shouldn't have discontinued the lite and kept it going for $79 or so. If the ds is as supported as the ps2 was even with the release of the ps3 ds could have 200Million right?
frankie_baby
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the ds was sold in china but i dont think the wii ever was for some strange reason and i dont think the 3ds is yet
By my guess the manufacturing cost difference between the lite and the dsi is probably so small it'd cost them more to run a seperate line to build it
Does nintendo have a reason behind that? Thats a lot of customers they're not reaching out to. Plus why was the ds sold under Ique or something and not Nintendo DS
frankie_baby
Member
Ique i think is a joint venture between themselves and a chinese company, probably makes it easy for them to actually get access to the chinese market
NeonZ
Member
I've seen tv commercials for the 3DS here in Brazil. But I guess the market willing to buy a game system and not pirate games is just too small, epecially due to the utterly absurb prices of systems and games in general here.
Nintendo has sort of branded itself as iQue in China. The first console they released in China was iQue Player in 2003 and after that they probably just haven't bothered to rebrand the company as Nintendo.
It'd look very counterintuitive for the general end-user for a toggle to switch between CPP and infrared, mind. They're two things that don't really make sense to be one-or-the-other unless you're aware of the internal workings of the system.
I have wondered about this myself.
No Nintendo product, except for the NES, original Gameboy and the GBA were ever sold in India, I think.
Considering the potential of the market as well as its growth rate, as well as the returns that Microsoft and Sony are reaping, I would say it is a logical move.
But the only indication we have ever gotten is a statement from Iwata about a desire to move into the Indian market eventually.
AceBandage
Banned
Actually, Nintendo is going to start selling their products in Brazil soon.
Interview with Reggie. They see the market potential. It's twice as big as Mexico and has a growing middle class.
Never mind the header, the people that posted it like to be sensational.
Mainly because of rampant piracy. Home consoles are also banned in mainland China for example and the only way to get any decent foothold over there is to form a partnership with a local company (see: iQue.)
frankie_baby
Member
Which is why i'm surprised there was never an ique wii
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
DS may already be ahead of PS2, we don't know for sure since we don't have iQue figures.
I think only handhelds and plug-and-play versions of consoles are allowed by law. A plug-and-play version of a disc-based system is not worth the trouble.
frankie_baby
Member
Seriously thats a pretty bizare law, surely nintendo has enough money to give the right officials a back hander to get that changed
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
I don't think a disc based console in China really makes much sense from their perspective anyway. Something more like a DD-only Wii (with access to GC, Wii, WiiWare, VC) could work though, but that'd some major hardware revision on iQue's part.