While the Nintendo 3DS will no doubt see huge sales during this holiday season, that’s coming after a decline in sales for the current year..
Nintendo’s latest financial report indicates that sales for the system for the current half of the year, running from April through September 2013, reached 3.89 million worldwide. While impressive, it’s a drop from the 5.06 million sales in the previous year.
Not all the news is bad, however. Out of those sales, the enlarged 3DS XL model has seen a boost in sales, going from last year’s 2.1 million to 2.9 this year. Software sales increased from 19 million units in the first six months of last fiscal year to 27 million units this fiscal year, and impressive increase.
In addition, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the company’s latest release in the adventurous simulation series, has sold 2.5 million copies worldwide in the last six months. Throwing in pre-April sales on top of that, the game has sold an impressive 6 million copies to date.
To date, 34.98 million 3DS systems have been sold globally, while software sales sit at 122 million.
With such games as Mario Party: Island Tour and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds still set to release before the holidays, the numbers should be on the rise again.
Source: Computer and Video Games
