Nintendo 3DS sold worse than expected

Despite the fact that in summing up the official results of last quarter start selling gaming console with a three-screen Nintendo 3DS was described as generally successful, the company was disappointed with this model. It sold less than expected. At a meeting with investors, CEO Satoru Iwata (Satoru Iwata) did not hide his frustration at the pace of sales of new items by two weeks after the launch in the U.S. and European markets. He noted that while sales of the first week were satisfactory, but since the second week, they were too small to accept their respective expectations.

At the same time selling game console in Japan were predictably low - demand is greatly reduced because of the experienced earthquakes. Another reason, which identified Mr. Iwata, - is the lack of games using three-dimensional screen. He suggested a group of potential users is in no hurry to buy the console, assuming that at the moment for it does not have enough games. Running Nintendo 3DS accompanied by the simultaneous release of 18 games that are backward compatible with earlier models Dsi / DS. According to Nintendo itself on the market was supplied 3.61 million portable game consoles, 3DS and 9.43 million games for them. However, as noted by Nintendo is not the first time faces the problem of lack of experience on their consoles in the initial stage. Running the model DS also was not too successful - it took about 12 months for the order to attract public attention.