Nintendo: 3DS best first day selling handheld
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March 29th, 2011
While there was some enthusiasm around the US for the new 3DS, with a few lines of folks here and there, it was mostly disappointing, as we didn’t see the huge extravaganza that usually follows a major Nintendo console launch, like the Wii or the DS Lite. But according to Nintendo, the 3DS had the highest day one sales of any Nintendo handheld console ever launched.
Which is certainly good news, but how many did they sell? No word on that. We’ll have to wait for the first week sales released by NPD early next month to see how well the 3DS fared in the states. In Japan, the console quickly sold out and there was a lot more buzz about it, but that’s always the case in Japan, whose gaming scene is pretty much owned by Nintendo these days.
