The Nintendo 3DS has sold 3.61 million units since its launch last month, Nintendo has confirmed.
Although falling short of the company's initial four million prediction, Nintendo describes this as a "smooth start" for the handheld.
The platform holder also confirmed it's shifted 9.43m 3DS games in the month since launch, which suggests a better attach rate for the portable than some analysts have suggested.
In the last year Nintendo sold 15.08m Wii units and 17.52m DS consoles, it said.
The company this morning posted a 66 per cent drop in net income for the year ending March 31, 2011, while predictably confirming it will show a new home console at E3 in June.
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Roswee-son on 25 Apr '11 said:
Do we reckon game sold 390,000 "second hand-recently bought from tesco" systems and caused them to fall short of the 4mil, either way great system bought it on launch an still surgically attached, love the AR Cards. now i just want my AR t shirt from nintendo
Clusks on 25 Apr '11 said:
Not to mention they've basically brought out none of their big guns on release (if I was to get one now I'd only be interested in Street Fighter as a sole 3DS game). Ocarina of Time, Star Fox, Mario Kart (which will probably be the biggest seller) and Kid Icarus should all see them continually shift a lot of units.
I was considering getting one, but I'm a bit put off by the battery life and of course, as I mentioned above, the lack of games I'd be really interested in (although I've never had a DS and would love to play a few games already released on that!)
SpandexArmstrong on 25 Apr '11 said:
One of those sales is mine:)
A great handheld, worth every penny! Ive been playing a pant load of SS4 online on 3DS & its the tits!
thats 3.6 million units ahead of Sony's NPG! Lol
alan666 on 25 Apr '11 said:
my AR T-shirt is on it's way from Nintendo
about time some games come out now, i don't think that there has been any more released since the 3DS launch
Solm on 25 Apr '11 said:
I won't be getting one until some decent games come out for it and not just remakes of old games which is typical of Nintendo.
Balladeer on 25 Apr '11 said:
(sits and waits for bazz2k comment involving the word "rubbish")
rbt2 on 25 Apr '11 said:
Very good......for you.
Balladeer on 25 Apr '11 said:
Cheeky oik!
liveswired on 25 Apr '11 said:
I'm shocked at how many people give out about battery life - its as good as the PSP range for goodness sake with more power, dual screens, 3D. . . .iPhones/iPods only last around 50 minutes if playing REAL games - so battery life isn't really problematic.
You wanted power kids, you got it, enjoy the system I highly recommend it and BTW I never liked the DS systems -so that's quite a turnaround for me.
boskersrevenge on 26 Apr '11 said:
It's been a month and the only games we know about being released is Steel Diver and OoT.
That is quite poor.
On the plus side and according to Miyamoto, we're good for Mario Kart this year.
bazz2k on 26 Apr '11 said:
This is because in my opinion the 3DS is a dissapointment - not completely useless but poor games + poorly received hardware = poor sales!
boskersrevenge on 26 Apr '11 said:
Well it didn't include the word rubbish but it did include disappointment
Yes Bazz, 3.6 million is awful and I don't know how Nintendo live with themselves after this atrocity.
Balladeer on 26 Apr '11 said:
He's disappointed? I'm disappointed. Not nearly scathing enough!