Following last Thursday's announcement that the 3DS's price will be reduced by a third, sales of the handheld have also dropped. Last week, Nintendo sold only 16,415 3DS systems in Japan, or about half of what it sold in the same market the week before (31,826).
Sales appear likely to dip even lower this week, since the announcement came late last week, meaning some of the week%26rsquo;s purchases were made before anyone knew Nintendo would readjust its sales strategy.
The numbers from last week's Japanese console sales are as follows. Sales from the previous week are in parenthesis:
1. PSP: 36,659 (26,854)
2. PS3: 20,704 (23,343)
3. Wii: 18,232 (17,114)
4. 3DS: 16,415 (31,826)
5. DSi LL: 5,267 (5,258)
6. DSi: 4,625 (4,921)
7. X360: 1,616 (1,546)
8. PS2: 1,594 (1,475)
9. DS Lite: 138 (155)
10. PSP go: 7 (14)
Sales of the PSP go also fell by about half, from 14 units to seven, but nobody noticed.
Source: andriasang
Aug 4, 2011
