In Japan.
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!!!deleted!!! (62963595) — 9 years ago(December 24, 2016 08:45 PM)
Lol no, I said the 3DS hasn't sold as well as the DS, and the Switch won't sell as well as the 3DS. You don't know the power of the crowded ass trains and sh!t in Japan. No one there will be holding no 10 inch monster things on the subway, unless it's mah cock ;3.
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!!!deleted!!! (62963595) — 9 years ago(December 25, 2016 10:27 AM)
Prolly worth saying though that the PS2 sold the lowest in Japan out of the other main regions by less than half, the PS2 still outsold the 3DS in totality by about 2.5 times, and the DS outsold the 3DS by nearly the same. Considering the 3DS was a lot better than the DS and yet still couldn't pull even half the sales, I seriously doubt the Switch is going to do very well comparably. It's sacrificing too much portability to serve as a direct 3DS successor, the portable gaming market is clearly disappearing as a whole (replaced largely by phones, especially in Asia) and console-wise it isn't much different than the Wii U, which we already know sold like complete sh!t.
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Yoss_and_the_Pilfered_Peaches — 9 years ago(December 25, 2016 10:44 AM)
worth saying though that the PS2 sold the lowest in Japan out of the other main regions
It's worth saying that one country has lower sales compared to two continents? Sure.
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!!!deleted!!! (62963595) — 9 years ago(December 25, 2016 11:33 AM)
Essentially you're saying that it should be common sense that things sell less in Japan because Japan has a smaller population than two continents.
Looks at NES, 3DS, Saturn, and Vita sales
Oops looks like you're not as smart an ass as you thought. For further context, the PS2 sold the worst in Japan vs the other regions yet the 3DS sold the best in Japan vs the other regions, which also skews the implications of your OP. There's a reason Japan gets its own region, and again, there's a reason I stated the facts I did to add proper context. -
Yoss_and_the_Pilfered_Peaches — 9 years ago(December 25, 2016 12:14 PM)
Oh, wow, you're actually going forward with this nonsense.
The NES sold quite a bit more in North American than in Japan. The 3DS is clearly an outlier considering that the trend favours what I've already said. And two dead consoles, one of which has a pretty unreliable sales figures (Vita sales went from ~4-5 million in 2013 to about ten million in one day because Sony just lumped all of its sales data into one category).
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!!!deleted!!! (62963595) — 9 years ago(December 25, 2016 12:30 PM)
The SNES also sold more in Japan than Europe, and we're talking about 120 million people vs over 700 mil btw. Japan also wins against "rest of the world" a lot of times, and we're talking some 5.8 or so billion people in that case. Clearly there's other factors to consider, but that was exactly my point in comparing Japan to the other regions. It's not as simple as your smart ass "LOL Japan is teh small other places are teh big!" remarks.
But anyway, for people thinking this is some epic feat for the 3DS, it's not, because it's still trailing PS2 total sales by nearly 100 million. Not that that's entirely important anyway. What's important is that it's also trailing DS sales by close to 100 mil.
Some people in this thread interpret the OP as a sign that the Switch, marketed at least to some degree as a handheld, should be highly successful, but when you look at the big picture you realize that the handheld market is actually significantly on the decline, even with a powerhouse system like the 3DS leading the charge.
I'm betting that Switch lifetime sales are considerably less than the 3DS, but more than the Wii U. Let's saaaaay.40 mil.
