3DS still outpacing predecessor in comparative sales, says Nintendo

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/07/sf4.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/18/3ds-still-outselling-ds/)It took a hefty price cut (http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/09/nintendo-on-price-reduction-no-glasses-required-to-see-3ds-sale/) and a holiday sales (http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/12/3ds-to-beat-out-original-ds-first-year-sales-land-killing-blow/) boost to coax the 3DS out of itspredecessor's shadow (http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/06/3ds-sales-figures/), but these days Nintendo's autostereoscopic handheld is doing just fine (http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/05/3ds-sales/). NOA President Reggie Fils-Aime says it isn't slowing down either, revealing toGamesIndustry that more than 8 million consoles have been sold in the US in the last two years -- beating the original DS' first two years by a million units. Software sales are picking up too. "Life-to-date 3DS game sales surpass 20 million units in the US, and that's just physical," Fils-Aime explains. "It doesn't include digital sales." Both digitaland physical software sales have increased by 55 percent in the last year, and according to Nintendo executive vice president of sales and marketing Scott Moffitt, 11 percent of last year's 3DS games were downloaded from the handheld's eShop. Nintendo's digital escapades may not be perfect (http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/08/nintendo-digital-content-problem-wii-u-ecosystem/), but it's good to see that its downloadable sales (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/14/buy-a-3ds-xl-and-luigis-mansion-or-pokemon-mystery-dungeon-get/) push (http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/07/nintendo-wii-u-deluxe-digital-promotion-website-live/)seems to be paying off.

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