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Nintendo has sparked a surge in the world of video games, when he announced the price slash the 3DS in Japan, the United States and other countries at 30-40% (depending on country) – only a few months after the system went on sale.
And now we have the first equipment sales numbers from Japan, and it looks like casual gaming on social networks, increase freemium and all these apps for free/inexpensive Smartphone made consumers more price sensitive in recent years.
According to the video game magazine publisher Enterbrain Nintendo managed to sell a whopping 215 000 units 3DS 8 and 14 August. Price drop (from 25 000 yen to 15 000 yen) entered into force on 11 August (but quite a few shops in Japan actually taken several days earlier).
For comparison: Nintendo's Japan shipped more than 350 000 units a week after launch (and approximately 200 000 a week afterwards), means falling prices caused a sort of second beginning in that country to the system (in may, for example, only 109 000 3DS were sold on the domestic market).
A total of 1.5 million 3DS systems were sold in Japan so far.
Via Famitsu [JP]
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