Last Week Saw 3DS Sales Rise 49% in UK

<p>Last week was an interesting week to say the least for Nintendo fans across the world as Nintendo hosted yet another Nintendo Direct&comma; covering the latest Wii U and Nintendo 3DS news such as new games&comma; services and &lpar;in typical Nintendo fashion&rpar; pushing games backwards to make us pin all hopes on E3 &lpar;Pikmin 3&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; as we reported yesterday in our UK all-formats chart post&comma; Fire Emblem&colon; Awakening&comma; released on Friday 19th&comma; managed to claim third place against the big-boys so to speak meaning that the big N have to be doing something right considering that a single handheld title was taking out competition from titles which appear on all manner of consoles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Perhaps this could be then&comma; by sales of the Nintendo 3DS increased by a whopping 49&percnt; last week&comma; meaning that your chances of actually StreetPassing with someone just increased yet again&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s worth noting that this may be due to a special edition of the 3DS XL in which it came bundled with Fire Emblem&colon; Awakening and featured the Fire Emblem logo sketched into the top of it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;officialnintendomagazine&period;co&period;uk&sol;48868&sol;3ds-sales-increase-by-49-in-uk-last-week&sol;">Official Nintendo Magazine UK<&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;9bb1840a-faf8-4b02-b927-cf826430efb9" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;