James Delahunty
1 Dec 2011 19:45
Surpasses first year sales of original DS.
Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimes has said that the 3DS handheld console has surpassed the year one sales of the Nintendo DS, after being on the market for eight months.
"In sales through this past Saturday - 8 months - [the 3DS] has outsold the full 12 months of the original DS," Fils-Aims said, to Time. "During that 12 months time, the original DS sold 2.37 million and we just surpassed that this past Saturday, so we've got real good momentum going into the holidays."
It hasn't been much of a secret that the Nintendo 3DS has failed to live up to the impact that the previous iterations of the hugely successful handheld device had. To push up sales, Nintendo is pushing on the software side, developing titles that will entice gamers, while also tweaking features of the 3DS.