Like you didn’t see that one coming.
Nintendo held a press briefing yesterday evening in which it focused on 3DS software, but Scott Moffitt, the company’s executive vice president of sales and marketing, took some time out to go through afew statisticsin his presentation. The handheld has racked up some impressive software sales in its first year on the market, despite a modest install base of overfour million unitsin the United States.
Through March 2012, three 3DS games had tallied sales of at least one million copies in the US:The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D(one million units since July 14, 2025),Super Mario 3D Land(two million units since June 22, 2025), andMario Kart 7(1.6 million units since July 22, 2025).
Thankfully for Nintendo, more first-party franchises are launching new titles in the coming months, includingNew Super Mario Bros. 2,Luigi’s Mansion 2, andPaper Mario: Sticker Star. Because trading on nostalgia is apparently the easiest path to success in this industry.
