3DS and 2DS Double Monthly US Hardware Sales to 452,000 Units For October

Go! Pokémon X and Pokémon Y!

3DS is getting better by the day. I've been playing Bravely Default demo and it has a lot of potential. I hope its story is good.
And in a few days... Zelda time!
Plus Layton, Phoenix Wright, Batman... there's plenty to satisfy almost anyone (no love for fps or driving lovers).

Holy crud, that's a lot!
You wouldn't believe how many people have Pokémon X and Pokémon Y at my school!

Whoa o.o

AWWW NICE!!!!

@Royalblues I'm a Junior in High School, and I know at least 10 other high schoolers who have the game, several of which who are Seniors!

@Royalblues @Gioku I am a senior as well sadly I know no one with a single copy of the game, besides my cousin and she is almost done with college!

@Qeuix @Gioku @Royalblues.. I'm 26, a parallegal for a lawfirm, and have Pokémon Y... First game was Yellow... Stopped for over a decade, dabbled in Black but disnt get into it, bought Y and became obsessed... For us older folks that love to gamble, it really quenches your thirst... And I have like 85 friends on my 3DS because of Y... It is a rock solid game

Nintendo needs to work on dropping the Wii U's price a little more. They act like its a price cut, all they really did was throw away the basic model and gave the deluxe its price. They could at least offer the basic model for $249.99 or something.

@Gioku At least 30 people on my college is playing the game.
Pokémon is so powerful!

21 here and still got plenty of friends who play Pokémon as well, some of which are posting up daily, like their own artwork and stuff, to Facebook.

I even ran into an old friend when I got my copy on launch day funnily enough, among the bazillion people popping in and out for their copies that day, haha. Got a bunch of streetpass hits when I hung out at the Starbucks next door afterward.

But... 2DS isn't even that good...

3DS is unstoppable!

It would be really awesome to see the 3DS maintain its spot in november and december. Maybe mega blackfriday sales and link between worlds have it magically beat out ps4 and xbox one?

Any news on when Pokémon Z will begin development?

Most people are saying the Wii U did 55k. I'm kinda surprised it dropped back down like that. I thought the price drop and Zelda would keep it at decent numbers til Christmas. This is the first time in six months I'm beginning to doubt that Wii U will not be the top seller this December.

@Gioku Same at my highschool, at first only me and 1 friend had a 3DS, and then all of a sudden I'm getting 10 streetpasses, all last playing Pokemon! Unfortuneately I have to wait 'till christmas for my copy D`:

If only nintendo could get the magic working with wii u, i always fancied 3ds to do well in the end, i dont have that same hope for wii u, which is a shame because its a great machine

See the 2DS has had a huge positive impact for us all!

"though no detailed splits were provided" You mean there were no pictures of Reggie doing the splits? Disappointing!

So, at this point the 3DS/2DS is pretty much sorted all round, from sales numbers to a high number of genuine quality games and even it's general perception/reception among the gaming crowd.

After a very shaky start I have to admit that my initial fears have proven to be unfounded. See, this is me admitting I was wrong and jumping the gun a bit. I thought Nintendo was really going to struggle selling the 3DS but Nintendo actually did what it needed to do to get this thing back on track; a massive price cut, multiple different models and new colors, lots of great first party titles as well as a few solid third party titles. The massive price cut and a high enough volume of genuinely great first party titles at regular intervals being the most important factors here clearly.

Now, can it do the same with Wii U...?

I think that is a far far bigger challenge at this point than the 3DS ever faced but I really hope Nintendo can somehow turn things around similarly to how they have done with 3DS. So far I don't think it's done enough to achieve that, at this point I'm still predicting the Wii U will likely end up being one of Nintendo's worst selling home consoles ever based on where everything is at right now, but we'll see how that situation develops as we go forward I guess...

I can't believe how popular this series is. I've never gotten into it myself.

I know so many people at my school that bought a 3DS just for these games, so this makes sense.

Well done Pokemon

I know a lot of people don't like to talk about doom and gloom, but the thing that annoys me most is seeing comments like 'These 3rd parties are conspiring against the Wii U, it's doing no worse than PS3 or 3DS in the early days', and I feel I have to let them know that yes, it's doing much worse than either of those two ever did.

People keep saying the only reason Wii U versions sell less is because they come out late, or are missing big features such as multiplayer… but Assassins Creed IV came out the same time as the others, all the same features as the others, but has once again been a huge flop on Wii U with less than 7000 sales, which makes up less than 1% of total sales. When the big games next holiday fail to come out on Wii U, this is why.

I got my copy of Y yesterday! Its good to see it selling so well.

Hell yeah, 3DS! I hope it's this successful throughout it's entire lifespan! :B