If you thought that the 3DS XL was going to be dead on arrival well you won’t have to worry about that happening in the Japanese market at least. The sales data for the weekend of the 3DS XL’s launch list the upsized handheld selling 193, 441 units in only two days.
This is about twice the amount that Nintendo saw during the same time-frame with their DSi XL. Of course it probably helps that the release of New Super Mario Bros. 2 was released alongside the 3DS XL, so this probably helped boost sales at least a little bit, as those who didn’t have a 3DS at that point may as well get the XL version to play NSMB2 on.
