3DS sets sales record as games finally arrive - Christmas Flowers Japan

The much-maligned Nintendo 3DS is the fastest selling console to reach 200,000 sales in Australia.

The handheld has reached the milestone in 37 weeks on sale according to sales data from the NPD Group Australia.

The 3DS received a major boost in recent weeks by the release of key games Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7.

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The games significantly boost the console's software library, which was widely criticised at launch for lacking must-have titles.

Nintendo dramatically slashed the price of the 3DS by $100 only four months after the new machine was launched following lower-than-anticipated early sales.

Such an early price cut was unprecedented for the usually highly conservative company, and the Japanese giant was forced to apologise to early adopters and offer 20 free downloadable games as compensation.

Australian 3DS owners who signed up to the "Ambassador" program can download their 10 free Game Boy Advance games from today.

The free games are:

F-Zero: Maximum Velocity

Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi’s Island

Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

Kirby and the Amazing Mirror

Mario Kart: Super Circuit

Mario vs Donkey Kong

Metroid Fusion

Wario Land 4

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Comments

11 comments

Whoot finally more games to play on my 3DS other than mario 3D

gothioso | Sydney - December 16, 2011, 7:48AM

This article is incorrect - we all know smartphones have killed the dedicated handheld.

Charlie Miso | Part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor - December 16, 2011, 9:20AM

I should probably just google this, but are 3DS titles playable on a standard DS, just without the 3D effect?

I don't play my DS-Lite enough to warrant upgrading to all these new fangled models they come out with.

Lucid Fugue | Melbourne - December 16, 2011, 9:39AM

@ Lucid Fugue

I'd like to know too. My son has almost completed Mario Kart on the DS and I'm sure he would go bonkers if he could play MK7 too - those gliders look great

oric - December 16, 2011, 10:22AM

@Fugue and Oric - Nope, the 3DS has significantly more powerful hardware inside than the DS. 3DS games will not run in 2D on the DS or DSi, juts like PS3 games will not run on a PS2.

DexX | Nose and grindstone are in alignment - December 16, 2011, 10:26AM

My local EB now has a display 3DS out and I've had the opportunity to have a good go at it.

It's crap, basically. The 3D effect (actually more about the illustion of depth than 3D as you'd understand it from cinema, etc) is in no way worth the compromises they've made on image quality, such as the fact that the whole thing appears blank if you move your head a millimetre in the wrong direction. If you turn down the slider to nix the 3D, the image quality is notably worse than my iPad or my phone.

DisDis | Sydney - December 16, 2011, 10:28AM

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Ah, okay. I suspected. Been Christmas present buying, and not knowing whether your nephews have actually upgraded makes it tricky, but I'm all about giving them a lesson in classic gaming, so I bought Kirby anyway.

The other year he was playing Metroid and was shocked to learn that Samus has been around for years. Disappointing.

Lucid Fugue | Melbourne - December 16, 2011, 10:36AM

Also goes to show how insignificant Australia is as a market.

LTD sales of 3DS - 200,000 fastest ever to each that number

Japan sales last week - 350,000 (sure Monster Hunter et etc but still), 205,000 previous week.

Charlie Miso | Part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor - December 16, 2011, 10:57AM

I credit the new Justin Bieber xmas song / music video for this achievement. Have you seen this thing? (channel V happened to be on while I was having lunch in a cafe).

The clip is disgustingly littered with references of children picking up 3DS's; at some stage the B himself is handing them out to little girls.

Bringing together my 2 favourite over-corporatisms; modern pop music & the christmas holiday period.