It's likely that gamers play even more during the cold winter months, so Nintendo has a deal for those who prefer staying in and spending quality time with their Wii U consoles and Nintendo
3DS handheld units.
Not exact matches
Sales of the
3DS handheld have plunged, dropping to 820,000 for the latest quarter from 1.4 million
units a year ago.
The
3DS handheld console, meanwhile, has sold 16.85 million
units worldwide since its 2011 launch.
Sony and Nintendo's
handhelds are still occupying the top spots, with the former company's PSP selling 29,168
units and the latter company's
3DS selling 27,905
units.
Speaking with Reuters at TGS 2011, Kawano said he didn't know why the popular
handheld title was only announced for
3DS and not Sony's newest
handheld, especially when previous iterations of the Monster Hunter helped sell bucket loads of PSP
units in Japan in the past.
So far, the Nintendo
3DS has sold over 1 million
units (1 029 024 to be more precise) in 2016, but unfortunately, 2 million really does seem out of reach for a
handheld that will enter its 7th year on the market in February.
For
handhelds, Nintendo's
3DS LL has seen a nice rise in
units, and you can likely attribute that to the launch of Super Smash Bros for
3DS.
In fact the Nintendo
3DS and PlayStation Vita account for around 65 % of all packaged
unit sales in Japan at the moment which shows just how big the
handheld market is in Japan.
Total hardware sales for the dedicated
handheld gaming console have reached 54.34 million
units to date and Nintendo are forecasting that the Nintendo
3DS will hit 59.66 million
units by March 31st 2016.
As for the
handheld gaming sector, the area of gaming surely most at risk from mobile phones... well, the Nintendo
3DS has now sold over 50m
units, putting it within a whisker of the top ten best - selling games platforms of all time.
Nintendo flogged a whopping 113,000
3DS handheld consoles in its opening weekend, making it the Japanese gaming giant's most successfully ever UK console launch.The Wii sold 105,000
units in the same time period and the DS around 87,000.
Wii U is on pace to sell fewer
units than any Nintendo home console in history, and
3DS, while more successful than Wii U, is on pace to be Nintendo's lowest - selling
handheld of all time, unless you count the Virtual Boy.
Almost simultaneously, Nintendo has announced that the wildly successful
3DS handheld gaming device just topped 40 million
units sold in the United States alone.
But when we look at any hit, popular
handheld game devices, the only hardware which managed to sell more than 5m
units in one year was the
3DS — that took the DS three years.»
(The
3DS, by comparison, has sold more than 20 million
units in Japan, around a third of global sales for the
handheld.)