Media Create has revealed that the Nintendo 3DS has managed to sell over 9 million units in Japan alone.
Exact sales figures for the 3DS come at 9,118,000 units. This figure also includes sales from the newly released XL model too.
In terms of the Wii U, it has been on sale in Japan for two weeks now and the figures are staying level. The console has now sold around 435,000 units in Japan. Nintendo should be proud of this number because the original Wii console sold 436,000 in its first week on sale.
Source: Nintendo Everything
Facelord
December 23, 2012 at 1:48 PMJapanese gamers seriously have bad taste. I was a Nintendo gamer from the very start of my gaming career(SNES with Link to the Past as my first game), but even I saw past the marketing and was able to see very clearly that they don’t give a crap about hardware quality anymore. Nintendo really doesn’t care about their hardware, so why should we? I point out their flaws and tell them how to improve and their fanbase swarms people like me with negativity, all because they’re a bunch of Yes Men who can’t comprehend that Nintendo HAS done wrong and should improve.
I can only hope that they go software-only as soon as possible, they still seem to care about software(even though they haven’t introduced a good new IP since Pikmin in 2001). A software-only Nintendo wouldn’t have to put out any more embarrassingly bad hardware, their fans wouldn’t have to stick with their lesser consoles just to get their Nintendo fix, their developers would be able to utilize the much-better power of the more advanced competing systems for better game experiences. Hardware doesn’t just mean visuals, it means better physics, framerates, resolutions, animations, more interactivity in larger environments with greater draw distances… hardware really is everything and Nintendo’s way behind the pack. They keep up this pretentious, hipster “hardware means nothing” nonsense and their fans eat it up. It just kills me to see what they’ve become.
XboxSucks
December 26, 2012 at 2:11 PM@Facelord
Your gaming career, what are you somekind of retard! as if Nintendo give a s**t what kids like you think, plus Nintendo will never go 3rd party.