With the launch of Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D and more successful sales of Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, the Nintendo 3DS has become the best selling video game hardware in the month of May in the United States. The two titles helped increase Nintendo 3DS software sales in stores by more than 60 percent. The Nintendo 3DS console also had two of the top three best selling software titles of month with Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D at number 2 and Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon at number 3.
After the recently concluded E3 press conference, Nintendo announced an overwhelming amount of exclusive content coming to the Nintendo 3DS console for the rest of the 2013. The Nintendo 3DS will increase it’s momentum of sales with the upcoming release of anxiously awaited games like Pokemon X and Y, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds.