Nintendo’s latest handheld, the Nintendo 3DS, launched in Japan on February 26th, 2011. And Sony’s the PlayStation 3 released in the country on November 11th, 2006. Although it was released years after Sony’s latest console, so far in Japan, the Nintendo 3DS has sold a total of 8,728,515 units, whereas the PlayStation 3 sold a total of 8,593,899 units.
Wow. Cool.
Vita who?
I like both the 3DS and the Vita.
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I dont know what this Vita is, but it sounds disappointing.
You’re sadly mistaken.
The console itself isnt, but the sales sure as hell are!!!
The vita looks pretty good. The only gripe I have is that the joysticks seem reeeeally weird. I played one in a store and it just felt…weird man.
They felt fine to me. But hey, everyones different x3
In my opinion the joysticks of the Vita feel really well, especially when comparing to the analog pad/stick of the 3DS, from which my thumb keeps slipping off while playing. Really uncomfortable design, if you ask me.
^THIS.
Tell that to the guys who made Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified. Not only the graphics aren’t good looking, but the play control sucks ass big time.
What does that have to do with the vita’s control sticks?
Nihilistic did terrible with that game. But it’s still better than half the crap on 3DS. And that’s just sad.
Why the hell are you trippin’ Jelly?
The sticks are just fine to me. I guess everyone’s different though.
I can’t disagree with you, G. I understand why IGN have given Declassified a 4 out of 10.
Yeah, I don’t really play CoD and I definitely wasn’t going to get Declassified for my Vita either. That was just a failed attempt at a quick cash grab.
But the 3DS is doomed!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lol. It never was and never will be.
At the hands of smartphones and tablets. It will be.
Hahaha if its not doomed by a PS product than it will be doomed by another.
It’s like kids when they have a race to see who is faster. But one of them is loosing so they change the rules. You can’t keep changing where the finish line is on a race just because someone is ahead of you.
Are you on drugs? Because I made no mention of a PS product, only tablets and smartphones.
3ds can hold its own against smartphones
No. It can’t. I see Handhelds becoming irrelevant in the future unless they have drastic changes.
lol just casuals use those to “play”, then after game they realised it would be better on a handheld console
P.s: lol iphone 5 and ipad mini
The Vita would be better to play them on. 3DS? No.
In case you forgot, gaming is a bussiness. If developers see money coming in from casual gamers, they will cater to casuals.
Don’t be so quick to dissmiss casual gaming cause it sure as hell isn’t going anywhere any time soon.
its sales says otherwise.
Tablet & Smartphone sales say otherwise.
Shit games on tablet and smartphone says otherwise.
The GOTY is on tablets ;) You lose.
“The GOTY is on tablets ;) You lose.”
lol
go play your shitphone dumbass
No,but you were implying it.
I said tablets & mobiles. HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT IMPLY ANYTHING PS RELATED. HOLY FUCKING SHIT YOU’RE AN IDIOT.
People don’t buy smartphones and tablets for gaming. And they clearly have not impacted on the sales of the DS or 3DS. So your point is completely invalid. Just because smartphones are selling well doesn’t mean the handheld market isn’t. The 3DS sold 682,396 this past week globally. If the 3DS keeps up at this rate it’ll easily take over it’s predecessor the DS within six to seven years as the biggest selling games console of all time. So please, name one way in which the smartphone market is destroying handheld gaming consoles, when they are selling better than ever before?
Look at who’s getting mad.But I won’t continue the argument,since I have better stuff to do. :)
Not you, but other people who said that it was doomed. First they were like “OMG, the 3ds is doomed because the vita will kill it!”. And then when Vita failed with the task they wanted it to execute they were like “OMG, the 3ds is doomed because the Smartphones will kill it!”. Sadly those people are so dumb that they makes everyone giving it fair critic lose validity. :/
considering it sold about 700.000 units in japan in the past 2 months, which is pretty much in line with prior sales figures, and considering that smartphones haven’t just entered the market but have been available as gaming platforms even before the 3ds’ release i don’t see how or why
Well, more and more developers are heading that way. There is massive amounts more money in the mobile industry than there ever was. Tablet sales have gone up 98% since 2011 meaning shit loads more users, there are more casuals in this world than hardcore gamers. Businesses tend to go to platforms that are safer. And you don’t see why?
Handhelds are not going anywhere, they will continue to exists alongside phones/tablets.
The reason tablets/phones will not overtake traditional handhelds is because they are not dedicated gaming devices and until that changes then maybe they will. Also they don’t have the IPs people have grown up with, all they have is a bunch of time wasters games and they may have a higher user base but you will never see a Pokemon game or a Little Big Planet game or any other popular IP from Sony or Nintendo known for being what handheld gaming is about on another company’s device just because there’s lots of people with one.
There is just to much history behind handhelds for them to disappear to phones/tablets. Better devices came out during the era of GameBoy and GameBoy Color but they remained popular because they had the IPs people wanted.
But when the developers soon see they can get more money of tablets and smartphones, they’ll head that way. Just you watch :)
They already have and in nearly full force.
You seem to be fixed in some sort of state of denial , like many other ”Pachter like” people.
This article clearly states the 3DS has just surpassed the sales of Ps3 in Japan. That doesn’t mean it’s doing bad jellybean , that means it’s just outsold Sony’s Homeconsole which had a 5 year headstart.
Are you now going to tell me how badly sony is doing and how they’re threatened by the Handheld market ? Everyone sings there biassed tunes.
The 3DS has sold 8.7 M in japan with similar numbers being sold in Europe And USA respectively. I dunno , if the 3ds was doing Vita sales , I would agree with you that they are threatened by ”Mobile Phones”. But it seems (like we already knew) that Nintendo Owns the Dedicated Portable Gaming Market and they are pretty much indestructible in it. Not even A fully revved up Sony could derail Nintendo’s Handhelds during the PS2 era with the PSP.
From what I can see , Nintendo’s Handheld market is actually at its largest point in its history , and will probably continue to grow. As much as the PS vita is a cool console , it doesn’t look good for that console. Maybe , just maybe it wil do something slightly significant…
How many units has 3DS sold together world wide?
Last I checked, numbers from I believe August-November had sales over 7 million in each of the respective regions(NA, JAP, and EUR), which then would have put it at over 21 million…probably pushing 23-25 million now…
DAFUUQQQQQQQ O_ O
The population of Noway is 5 million… 8 million sold in one country? Mother of Jesus
Yeah… we’re pretty few :P
Nintendo for life!
Woah good job Nintendo.
Hey, what happened to all the news stories predicting Nintendos downfall? XD
And ppl said handhelds were doomed Cuz of tablets n smartphones
Well its only in america that could be referred to
Everywhere but Japan. They will be.
No they won’t.
Dude,look at vgchartz .There you can clearly see that the 3ds sold almost as much in America as Japan and Europe.
Meanwhile in more relevant territories like NA and EU
Ignorance much.
Japan made the playstation and Nintendo.
As far as they’re concerned, they’re the most relevant. Just because you’re white, doesnt make you the prime customer.
Japanese sale figure is in no way relevant to EU, NA, AUS. There just interesting figures, nothing more, nothing less.
So the 360 doing only very well in America for it’s first 5-6 years, meant that it was the best console? No. Japan, Europe and everywhere else preferred the Playstation 3. That to me, says that the US sales were irrelevant and just interesting.
Oh, but i guess its not, because *shrug* its not.
Don’t make up bullshit, that makes no fucking sense. Every region is relevant to the majority of gaming companies, and developers. The only difference is culture affecting gaming, where Japan has ALOT of JRPG games, and the West has western games that would do terrible in Japan. Thats it. Otherwise, everywhere is relevant.
“Don’t make up bullshit, that makes no fucking sense.”
Funny, isn’t that what you do most the time?
That’s what I keep saying.
All the time*.
Thank you for the correction :)
Dude,you say your just a gamer who is saying that the dragon and other people are being immature by insulting Aeolus.But it turns out your doing the same thing.Instead of ignoring them like you tell them to do to Aeolus,you hypocritically insult them as well.
You probably won’t reply,as you and Aeolus don’t whenever someone is right and you know it,but I just had to say that.
Please go back to school. You’re an embarrassment to the educated community.
saids the fool that fool himself to go on a site you hate.
Okay…. but you are ignoring my point(not that I didn’t expect you too).
But he IS right though… You have long said to just shug it off and go on. Even though he could’ve said it in a tactless way.
Actually cause of the Yen conversion rate, they are the most important to Nintendo. The profit margin is bad in the US and Europe. If Nintendo continues to do well in its own territory and Asian (not China) they will continue to stay healthy and be able to make games.
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“Just because you’re white, doesnt make you the prime customer.”
I wonder how you came to this conclusion
Assumptions. TheDragon seems to be good at trying to make what he thinks is fact.
Nintendo and Sony don’t have to sell their products outside Japan you know, perhaps you should be a little mote thankful than that :p
Europe 6.5 Millions
America 7.5 Millions
Still a lot of 3ds if you ask me, globally 33% of the sales of either XBOX 360 or PS3.
You´re welcome.
……(continues)the 3ds is doing great in america(trust me, live there.So many people have it) and okay in europe.
…what?
Okay, Sickr, you need to clarify this. So the ps3’s 60+ million sales worldwide, less than 9 million of that is Japans?
I think thats wrong, or you’re not clarifying what you meant
*70+ million.
But other than that: Exactly what I thought.
It’s really hard to imagine that even less than a seventh of the total sales belong Japan.
I know, i mean the ps3 has massive sales in Japan every week…
PS3 has sold 8.7 millionsin Japan to be precise
How has Japan only got just over 10% of PS3 sales? 0.o
Maybe they were more attracted to Wii, PSP and DS, since those seem to have had more Japanese games (Nintendo games, Metal Gear, Monster Hunter, etc.)
That’s very impressive. The lifetime sales for PS3 in Japan was beaten by the 3DS in a matter of less than two years. Go 3DS!
Clearlty Nintendo rules the East while Microshit rules the West and Sony’s turf is Europe…
3DS the great great great grand child of the Gameboy is a beast of the good kind. Funny people think the 3DS is not doing well in other regions. Watch NPD sells for the 3DS in America, and then watch EU regions. Steady high sales in America above 120 000 weekly almost. In fact America sells more 3DSs than Japan. Reason why Wii U’s biggest competitor shall be the 3DS; more like vice versa to correct my own statement :).
Lol, nintendo has stated many times that the 3DS sales aren’t good outside of Japan.
They beber said that.
Never*
here dude, its from HERE aswell, its actually from 2 months ago
http://mynintendonews.com/2012/10/24/nintendo-admits-poor-3ds-sales-outside-of-japan-slashes-forecast-by-70/
Good with hardware sales, lacking decent software though :/ I haven’t picked up my 3DS in aaaaaaaages to play a good game.
^ This.
The last game I actually enjoyed, would have been Kingdom Hearts 3D. And that’s only because I love everything about Kingdom Hearts.
Aaand again, ^ This. (:
Could say the exact same thing.
Do you guys just walk aroung aimlessly after the story is done, because I do
Nope, I’ve finished the game. Once I’m done with a game, I just put it back on the shelf, unless it has pretty good multiplayer.
Title of article is miss leading it was Japan numbers 3Dr vs total ps3 implying it’s the global total of ps3 vs Japan numbers 3Ds lol
“In Japan, Nintendo 3DS current sales have surpassed total sales of PS3”
HOW THE HELL DOES THAT IMPLY GLOBAL?
Just thinking of how much the 3DS costs and thinking about how much money Nintendo is making on those 8,728,515 units sold makes my stomach feel sick. SO many people struggling just to eat every night and pay their bills, and Nintendo is making all those billions of dollars. Yes, I feel Nintendo deserves it because I love them and they make awesome products, but that’s not the point.
Dude they just started making a profit :l
They were selling the Console at a loss for over a year.
@lol,
That’s VERY hard to believe that after all of those millions of units sold that they would just NOW be making a profit. Nobody could ever make me believe that.
this came from Nintendo THEMSELFS.
Japan, is not in a crises like the west, and Europe. If you feel so guilty, then go to homeless person and give him $169.99
Non-specific action figure approves it!!!!!!
Sony has only sold 8 million in Japan? Holy shit, if the total sales are 70 million how much has EU and the Americas sold respectively?
*A lot*
Well that seems rather impressive. But I find it rather odd that the PS3 has sold that much in it’s home territory vs when worldwide sales elsewhere in total is around 60/70 million. Something just seems off to me.
Oh happy days!
Japan is a gaming country but the major market for gaming is mainly the West – especially North America.
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Damn!
well this proves japanese people are idiots
with no taste and like last gen hardware crappy rehash abut it Nintendo so it ok!
But I thought people were too stupid to tell the 3ds apart from the ds
What an astonishing turn of events
This is Japan we’re talking about here.
MAN!!!! That’s cool!!
Animal Crossing probably helped a LOT! Still, that’s amazing!
Nintendo Rules Japan
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That’s impressive.
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