Nintendo's strategy of promoting the connectivity and local networking features of its newly released 3DS handheld gaming system in the U.S. will help drive rapid adoption, but it won't match sales of
the previous-generation DS platform, new IHS Screen Digest research reveals. IHS forecast a global installed base of 11.6 million for the device by the end of 2011. Growing competition from the iPod,
iPhone and Android smartphone and tablets will prevent the 3DS from matching the sales of the previous-generation Nintendo handheld, the DS. By 2015, IHS forecasts a global installed base of 70
million 3DS devices.
