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Nintendo 3DS Was The Best-Selling Games Device In UK During 2013

The latest edition of MCV magazine has revealed that the Nintendo 3DS was the best-selling games device in the United Kingdom during 2013.

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mohuzas3760d ago (Edited 3760d ago )

"it prints money"

Hyper_Tension1403760d ago

Lol you got that right, the 3DS is basically a money printer for Nintendo and the Wii U is a paper shredder.

mohuzas3760d ago

the WiiU will make them money as well, just not as much as the 3DS.

clouds53760d ago

When the 3DS was released people all over the Internet said it is a failure just as they do now with wii u. 3DS was a launch disaster and now Nintendo turned it into one of the best selling gaming devices. Why don't they have some faith in wiiu...?

FriedGoat3759d ago (Edited 3759d ago )

Different market. Nintendo absolubtely destroy in the handheld market, it was surprising that the 3DS didn't sell that well in the first year.

Games consoles however, the Wii was a lucky break, The cube sold poorly and the the N64 before it.
This is most likely why people think the Wii U will follow in the footsteps of its predecessors. The fad of the Wii is gone now, those casuals have moved on to their ipads and what have you. So now the audience for another Wii is very small, just other loyal Nintendo fans.

edit- And don't get me wrong, I LOVED the N64 and Cube, the Wii however, not so much. Once they make a new WaveRace with no gimmicks, I'm all over the Wii U.

Hyper_Tension1403760d ago

Zelda, Monster Hunter, and many many others.

SpiralTear3760d ago

...and? I assume you're going to continue and finish that sentence, because there was a lot to love on 3DS in 2013, Pokemon included.

OtakuDJK1NG-Rory3760d ago

Etrian Odyssey IV TLoT
Project X Zone
Shin Megami Tensei IV
Fire Emblem Awakening
Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon
Senran Kagura Burst
Pokemon X and Y
Ace Attorney Dual Destinies
Animal Crossing New Leaf
Monster Hunter Tri Ultimate
Mario & Luigi Dream Team
Rune Factory 4
Legemd of Zelda ALBW

Hyper_Tension1403760d ago (Edited 3760d ago )

I have both the Vita and the 3DS and I cant deny the Vita is a far more advanced portable console.....but!!! I play my 3DS alot more because of its games and I KNOW everyone that has both could agree with me.
EDIT:But the Vita has been doing better lately and 2014 looks like the year the Vita can truly shine.

savaroth3760d ago

Bravely Default, Fire Emblem, Zelda. It's not like the 3DS has nothing but Pokemon.

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FlyingFoxy3760d ago

Too bad the 3DS wasn't made more comfortable to hold like the Vita.

Could've done with a better thumbstick too.

Gabenbrah3760d ago

VITA comfortable... Umm have you held that atrociously designed device? And your bashing the 3DS thumb sticks when the VITAs are awful, they're tiny.

dcj05243759d ago

How are you guys holding your VITA? Lol. The Vita is more comfartable than the 3DS. As comfortable as the 3DS XL and the 2DS is the most comfortable.You have to rest the VITA on your middle fingers. Its the best way to hold it.

for we are many3760d ago (Edited 3760d ago )

WHAT??!

I have both and the vita is almost impossible to hold comfortably without the grip (PDP or others), it's a well known issue with the vita. The older 3DS model had that issue but to a lesser degree, 3DS XL is comfortable to hold, and 2DS is the most comfortable handheld ever to hold.

OtakuDJK1NG-Rory3759d ago

agreed. I have both. I had my 3DS for 2 years and rarely feels uncomfortable. But had a Vita and it already making my hand hurt.

just-joe3759d ago

The Vita could have done better with games people want to play.

dcj05243759d ago

It did though. It has quite a few good-amazing games. But Sony has no idea how to advertise them people STILL in 2014 call my PS VITA "the new psp' and many don't know the games for it because nobody told them. On the other hand EVERYBODY knows about Pokemon X and Y because nintendo actually told people it exsist. Tearaway has NO ads in the US and
very little in the UK. I haven't seen a VITA ad in the states since November 2012.

OtakuDJK1NG-Rory3759d ago

circle pad not a stck lol don't even know what a stick is

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Geobros3760d ago

Not only in UK but all over the world I think...

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KEMCO ditch the RPGS for a horror Visual Novel - Horrific Xanatorium

Available right now on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC is the latest from a prolific KEMCO team - Horrific Xanatorium; a horror Visual Novel

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TopSpin 2K25 Review - Serving Up a Nice Reboot | MP1st

TopSpin 2K25 Review - After a very long hiatus, TopSpin is back! Can Hangar 13 bring the venerable tennis series back to relevance?

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Days Gone, 5 Years Later

Almost unbelievably, Days Gone has just turned 5 years old after launching on April 26th, 2019. What's changed in that time?

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mkis0075h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows905h ago(Edited 5h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis0074h ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel19893h ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw5h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno5h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak5h ago(Edited 4h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy854h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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