NPD: Strong Animal Crossing: New Leaf Launch Helps Nintendo 3DS Repeat As Best-Selling Video Game Platform

Nintendo 3DS sold nearly 225,000 units of hardware in June and finished as the best-selling video game system in the U.S. for the second consecutive month. A strong launch for Animal Crossing: New Leaf and the continued strength of Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D and LuigiÔÇÖs Mansion: Dark Moon helped sales of Nintendo 3DS hardware and software increase by more than 40 percent and nearly 105 percent, respectively, over the same time last year.

Highlights for the month include:

- Through the first six months of 2013, Nintendo has sold nearly 3.6 million combined physical and digital units of first-party Nintendo 3DS software, an increase of more than 85 percent over the same time frame last year.

- Animal Crossing: New Leaf sold more than 505,000 combined physical and digital units in June. More than 20 percent of these sales were through the Nintendo eShop, the second-highest ratio behind only Fire Emblem Awakening. NintendoÔÇÖs internal trackers show that sales of the game continue to be strong in July as well, indicating that Animal Crossing: New Leaf is poised to be one of the biggest games of the summer.

- Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D sold more than 108,000 combined units in its second month and LuigiÔÇÖs Mansion: Dark Moon added nearly 115,000 combined units in its fourth month on the market, bringing its lifetime total to more than 750,000 combined units.

- Nintendo had three of the top five best-selling software SKUs for the month.


Nintendo 3DS will build on its momentum with the successive launches of Mario & Luigi: Dream Team (Aug. 11), Pokémon X and Pokémon Y (Oct. 12), Mario Party for Nintendo 3DS (name not final; November) and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (November).

Fuente: Nintendo Enthusiast

No sé si Nintendo debería centrarse sólo en el mercado portátil, pero viendo estos datos (y los de ya tantas décadas), creo que no le iría mal del todo.

Tenemos un hilo de ventas para hablar de esto: http://www.33bits.es/foro/index.php?topic=28.0

(20-07-2013 10:37)Estubeny link escribió:No sé si Nintendo debería centrarse sólo en el mercado portátil, pero viendo estos datos (y los de ya tantas décadas), creo que no le iría mal del todo.

Hombre, la "decada" pasada con Wii no le fue nada mal, quitando GC y N64, que no vendieron tanto como esperaban, no le ha ido tan mal en las sobremesas.

Lo que demuestran estos datos es que las consolas venden con juegos, es mas, demuestran que las consolas de NINTENDO venden con juegos de NINTENDO (que tomen buena nota si quieren levantar WiiU). Y tambien demuestran que, a dia de hoy, solamente existe una portatil en el mercado para los consumidores... a ver si Sony hace algo por que PSVita no se merece lo que la esta pasando...