In releasing more information than they did last week, Amazon UK have confirmed that pre-orders for the Nintendo 3DS have outpaced the record previously set in 2007 by the PlayStation 3 by a growth of 71%.
They have also surpassed those achieved by any of the Nintendo DS handheld iterations, and are more than five times (407%) the size of pre-orders placed for the Nintendo DSi in 2009.
“It’s unusual for a handheld console to attract this amount of excitement in the run up to launch, such high levels of interest are normally reserved for the play-at-home hardware like the ground-breaking Nintendo Wii and last year’s Microsoft Kinect,” comments Chris Poad, Director of Video Games at Amazon.co.uk Ltd.
“Nintendo 3DS is launching at a time when interest in all things 3D is incredibly high and with the promise of real 3D graphics without glasses, it’s a real breakthrough in handheld video game entertainment.”
