Of the 3DS in the first nine months that he can buy more copies sold than the Wii, the American branch of Nintendo, clearly. The handheld went on in the past year in the U.S. more than 4 million times over the counter.
Nintendo announces via a press release that in 2011, more than 4 million units sold of the 3DS, which since February in North America and Europe to purchase. This is the introduction of the 3DS is more successful than that of the Wii, the console that, in 2006, came to market, sets Nintendo, without making it clear how many copies of the Wii in the first nine months over the counter went.
Nintendo seems to be with the press release to want to talk that the 3DS will not be successful, as various media reported. Still, it was Nintendo director Satoru Iwata himself who in april said that the receipt of the 3DS in the bar. The consolebouwer then decided in July to set the price of the handheld to significantly decrease.
Not only the 3DS sold well, the figures clearly show that Nintendo presents, as also predecessor DS remained popular, with 3.4 million copies sold. The Wii remains the most popular device from Nintendo. Of them were there in 2011 in the U.S., over 4.5 million sold. That means that Nintendo has in total in 2011, nearly 12 million devices sold in the U.S., a number that the company already five years in a row. It also means that the Japanese in the US, a huge ‘installed base’. There are up to now in the US, more than 39 million Wii’s and 51 million DS’s sold.
