First Party 3DS Software Sales Up 52% In 2013

<p>If you are time travelling from when the Nintendo 3DS was originally launched and are reading the news title above then you may be confused to learn that the &&num;8216&semi;once struggling&&num;8217&semi; handheld seems to be going from strength to strength as more and more developers jump onto the 3DS band-wagon&comma; releasing better and better titles with each passing month&period; This is especially true for first party titles&comma; which are doing particularly well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nintendo of America has given evidence to this by reporting that first party 3DS software sales have risen a whopping 52&percnt; in the past years&period; Delving deeper into these statistics we learn that in the first quarter of 2013&comma; more than 2&period;1 million first party Nintendo 3DS games were sold in the US alone&comma; which in comparison to 2012&comma; it took 30 weeks for titles to reach &&num;8216&semi;just&&num;8217&semi; 2 million units sold&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Notable titles for April are LEGO City Undercover&colon; The Chase Begins which has regularly featured in both the UK All-Formats chart and especially in the EU eShop Charts which has sold 94&comma;000 units across both physical and digital formats in North America whilst Luigi&&num;8217&semi;s Mansion&colon; Dark Moon sold 140&comma;000 copies meaning that it has now amassed a total of 530&comma;000 copies sold&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nintendolife&period;com&sol;news&sol;2013&sol;05&sol;first&lowbar;party&lowbar;3ds&lowbar;software&lowbar;sales&lowbar;up&lowbar;52&lowbar;percent&lowbar;in&lowbar;2013">Nintendo Life<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" alt&equals;"" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;6bf0eb69-3d79-41c8-8f20-c09f99c6b78d" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;