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Analysts comment on current and future 3DS sales

Posted Jul 9, 2011 at 2:14PM EST by Carl B

Listed in: News Tags: Michael Cai, Michael Pachter, Nintendo

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How well do industry analysts think the 3DS will sell?

"Based on our research, we knew the 3DS curve would look more like the PSP curve early on. The industry should not base longer-term forecasts on initial sales. We knew that Nintendo was targeting a different audience with the 3DS as part of a conscious effort to go back to core gamers. A lot of the games for the device are targeting the younger male demographic. That's what many in the games industry don't understand. Many people expected Nintendo sales to repeat the DSi story and even added higher expectations," said Michael Cai, vice president of Games and Technology at Interpret.

Michael Pachter also chimed in, saying that the 3DS was slow to get started due to its price and lack of content.

"I don't think that the price is so much of an obstacle as the software lineup, but given the high price, it's hard to justify buying a 3DS instead of a regular DS. Once there is a lot of exclusive software for the 3DS (Luigi's Mansion 2, Kid Icarus Uprising, Mario Kart 3DS, etc.), I expect to see sales pick up. I don't think that 3D phones are as much of a threat as smartphones are. There will be a lot of smartphones, and they will become the de facto entry level phone in a couple of years, meaning that dedicated handheld gaming devices will see their addressable market shrink to only the hardcore," he said.

Read what Pachter has to say about the dividing handheld market.

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First thing first, this will not sell like hotcakes BECAUSE the average joe walking along will just view it as a nindendo DS1.2 type of deal. They don't know too much about the "under the engine specs"/graphics power. I mean I would pretty much assume aswell that this is nothing more than a Nitendo ds with one extra feature, other than that the regular nintendo DS can do the same as this crap.......... They would been better off calling it the Nintendo Handhend 3d system. But yeah the PRICE AND the lazy name (3ds) itself will be enough to show that theres nothing to see here.

# RE: sdee — Coolio 2011-07-11 00:46

Your right about your average Joe thing. I'm taking a wild guess on this one, but a good chunk of Nintendo's sales are minors and are purchased by their parents. Now *most* parents don't know more than the average Joe on the 3DS. The parents look to their right and see the dsi. They look to the left and see 3ds. They look mostly identical, have camera, play games, internet, etc. so they go for the cheaper deal. Nintendo needed a more distinct name and style for this handheld.

# RE: sdee — DeltaDAWG 2011-07-15 16:44

I second the average joe comment but all the same....if the average joe wants to play a 3DS only game then that average joe needs to get a 3DS.

Suffice it to say, once 3DS games start to sell like hot cakes then it stands to reason at some point in time, so did the 3DS itself.

It's all about the games.

# i like the 3ds — iKing 2011-07-10 02:27

i like it more now that i have Zelda OOT 3D and RE the mercenaries and i will like it more when luigy's mansion,mario kart and the supposedly SMASH BROS come out

anyway i think that the chart will up when those game come up it will help a lot just like when zelda was released they sold more 3ds than the game lol (i think)

# RE: Analysts comment on current and future 3DS sales — Azariel_z 2011-07-16 03:56

DS started to pic uo with nintendogs...3DS needs soemthing "killer" to get in the game..or will become a PSP, and worse when it gets cracked..

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