Nintendo Lowers 3DS Forecast Following Lower Than Expected Sales - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 April 2019 / 3,749 Views
Nintendo earlier lowered its forecast of the Nintendo Switch for the current fiscal year ending March 31, 2019 from 20 million to 17 million.
The company has now revealed it has lowered its shipment forecast for the Nintendo 3DS during the same period from four million units worldwide to 2.6 million units.
As of December 31, 2018, Nintendo has shipped 74.84 million 3DS units worldwide.
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Nintendo is back to their historical norm - terrible forecasting. Missing Switch by 15% and 3DS by 35% is pretty huge. But, everyone is so used to Nintendo's estimates being so massively wrong that they almost get a pass. Almost.
There is only one more 1st party title to release, Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn in March then it's all over.
Persona Q2 still comes out later this year though. Not 1st party, but almost certainly the last good 3DS release.
Yep. It's on its dying breath now.
RIP 3DS, perhaps the greatest handheld (at least imo).
It wont outsell the psp i suppose
It had a good long run, but its time is over. It's the Switch's turn now.
I'm half happy half sad for the death of the 3DS.
I was hoping that it would reach PSP numbers, but that doesn't appear possible now. Too bad.
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