Kimishima on 3DS sales, should reach 70 million soon
This information comes from Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima
This graph shows the total Nintendo 3DS family weekly sell-through rates for Japan, the US, and Europe from the first week in 2017 to the second week of October. Even after the New Nintendo 2DS XL launch shown in
blue, sales of other 3DS family hardware remained stable. Week 30 shows particularly high growth, and this spike was driven by the release in Japan of the Square Enix title Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age.Even after Nintendo Switch sales began, sales of the Nintendo 3DS family remain stable, as you can see here.
This graph shows Nintendo 3DS hardware and software sell-through rates in the US market from the first week
of April 2017 through the second week of October in a year-on-year comparison for the past 2 years. The
Pokémon series had a major impact on hardware and software sales in FY2017, resulting in a year-on-year decline in sell-through for FY2018.
This graph shows Nintendo 3DS hardware and software sell-through trends for the European market. Although the figures for FY2018 are not as good for those of previous years, they are still firm overall.
These are the figures for the Japanese market. For this graph alone, we include titles from other software publishers in the sales figures for software. In the domestic Japanese market, Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age helped drive hardware sell-through upwards year-on-year.
Nintendo 3DS sales in each region for both hardware and software have experienced no significant drop-offs,
as shown above, and maintain the positive momentum we expected.We expect to reach the 70 million unit mark for cumulative series sell-in numbers for the Nintendo 3DS family soon. We will continue to work to make sure our business leverages this installed base this holiday season.
