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Nintendo has announced that the New Nintendo 3DS and its bigger brother the New Nintendo 3DS LL have been privy to a success more uproarious than expected.

In its latest financial report, Nintendo has claimed that over 400,000 New 3DS units have been sold in the mere three weeks that it has been available in Japan. This goes beyond the figures of all of the previous remodelled systems from the DSi onwards and has caused a number of retailers to be unable to meet the demand, for which Nintendo has personally apologised.

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Nintendo attributes the system's success to the many new enhancements that the system provides over its older version, and express confidence in the device's future:

We feel that the new “super-stable 3D” function, new “C” stick, and accelerated CPU of the new models have been well-received by our consumers.
With the new models in addition to the consecutive release of games which could be double-million sellers, we are confident that Nintendo 3DS will establish a presence in the market in the year-end sales season in Japan.

Nintendo also reports that due to the unmitigated success of the New 3DS many developers are eager to create new software for the machine, and also says that "there are many other unannounced titles to come".

In the midst of all this success, the Japanese giant has declared that the reason for not introducing the system to the West is due to the limited number of big titles arriving in Europe and North America before 2015.

So the New 3DS is off to a tremendous start, but will you be clamouring for one once it's been released in the West? Let us know in the comments section below!

[source nintendo.co.jp]