Taking a look at the Google Trends page shows us that the Nintendo 3DS has been the most popular search term when compared to the other big hardware announcements at this year’s E3 event.
As you can see from the chart above, the search terms for 3DS have been drastically more popular than Microsoft’s Kinect or Sony’s Playstation Move peripherals. Microsoft began stronger with their first-day Kinect event, but on the day of the Nintendo press conference where the 3DS was shown off, search terms shot to new heights- although in terms of news posts, the day which Microsoft had to themselves was capable of producing a greater volume of content. Playstation Move is a difficult one to check, as some people may search for just “Move”, but that’s indistinguishable from people searching for other things with the word “move”.
I think it goes to show that the 3DS has mass appeal, most likely stemming from the fact that the DS is already a massively popular device. In Japan, where the DS is overwhelmingly popular, search terms for the 3DS were drastically more common that in other countries; in the United States, for example, the term “Kinect” is much closer to the term “3DS” than in Japan. Something also to note is that the peak of traffic for both the Move and the 3DS is on the same day; perhaps Sony should have planned ahead for Nintendo overshadowing them.
As if you didn’t need any more proof that Nintendo won E3.
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