3DS Surpasses Nintendo DS's First Year Sales in Eight Months, Say Nintendo

According to Nintendo, its 3DS hand-held has managed to beat the first year sales of its predecessor, the Nintendo DS - and it managed to do this in the first eight-months of release. Of course, the top executives at Nintendo forget to mention that the Nintendo DS did not have a price cut in that first year of sales, nor did it cause investors in Nintendo to demand that the company do a course correction and consider releasing software on other competing platforms like iOS.

"In sales through 8 months, the 3DS has outsold the full 12 months of the original DS," Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime  told Time's Techland in a recent interview. "During that 12 months time, the original DS sold 2.37 million and we just surpassed that this past Saturday, so we’ve got real good momentum going into the holidays."

Regardless of how it got there, the news is good for the 3DS, which had a hard time exciting the Nintendo crowd at launch, and a price cut and more first-party software is certainly helping the platform finally get some much-need attention from fans.

And to be fair, the DS had a slow start too; it took 18 months before fans really got excited about the platform.

Source: Develop