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jj984jj said:I see people with PSPs and GBAs, but certainly not DS Lites.
Several of them are playing systems with clamshell designs. Either the SP or a DS.
jj984jj said:I see people with PSPs and GBAs, but certainly not DS Lites.
Mostly GBA or phat DS from what I can see. I can't tell too well from the side pictures. There are certainly people with PSPs as well.Pureauthor said:Several of them are playing systems with clamshell designs. Either the SP or a DS.
Pureauthor said:10 years from now, when the next batch of books that talk about video game history are released, the DS is going to go down as one of the single biggest videogaming successes of all time.
speedpop said::lol
Sony right now...
Barf_the_Mog said:Except for North America and Europe, where it is neck and neck with the PSP and far behind what the GBA was at this point.
Barf_the_Mog said:Except for North America and Europe, where it is neck and neck with the PSP and far behind what the GBA was at this point.
Corrected.catfish said:I don't think it's anything close to neck and neck in Europe anymore. I think they selling 140 000 per week in europe now or something (anyway correct/confirm that?)
Barf_the_Mog said:Except for North America and Europe, where it is neck and neck with the PSP and far behind what the GBA was at this point.
For reference, the GBA was 8 million units ahead of the DS in sales at this point in America. This totally negates Japanese gains.
http://www.vgcharts.org/usaconscomps.php?name1=DS&name2=GBA&type=0
Barf_the_Mog said:Read my edit. It'll take a long time to catch up to the GBA.
EDIT:
AND in America the GBA was selling half a million units per month in the summer time. It was the same success that the DS is in Japan. In fact, by looking at the VGCharts stats, the gap will continue to widen for the next few months. (unless the DS has sold over 800,000 units in August)
Edit 2:
GBA
Nov 03 1,364,500 19,631,000
GBA
Dec 03 2,593,500 22,224,500
Never going to pass the GBA......never.
140.000 per week yes. And if we take the monthly NPD numbers it's about 120.000 per week for the USA aswell. Every month I enter a Dutch store where they sell games, and they're all gradually moving the DS more and more forward. It's a gradual process, but more and more do I see DS' and demopods and stacks of games getting loads of attention.catfish said:I don't think it's anything close to neck and neck in Europe anymore. I think they selling 140 000 per month in europe now or something (anyway correct/confirm that?)
Geek said:THERE... ARE... FOUR... DS LITES!!!
Barf_the_Mog said:Except for North America and Europe, where it is neck and neck with the PSP...
DS Lite has only been out for three months, and of those we only have two months of sales data. Saying it's neck and neck isn't quite accurate, since the gap is growing.Barf_the_Mog said:Except for North America and Europe, where it is neck and neck with the PSP
Except PSP and X360.Kuroyume said:They line up for anything.
The best thing about this is remembering all the jackasses who said that Sony would crush the DS... that the handheld market would reach new heights because of Sony's involvement. I'm just hoping that they can do the same with the Wii.
Arde0 said:Does the hardon for DS sales numbers come from Sony doing so poorly or Nintendo doing so well? Just curious.
I sure hope the Wii does the same thing too....lets take a collective giant step backwards in game develpment...it will be good for the industry, promise.
Bitter much?Arde0 said:Does the hardon for DS sales numbers come from Sony doing so poorly or Nintendo doing so well? Just curious.
I sure hope the Wii does the same thing too....lets take a collective giant step backwards in game develpment...it will be good for the industry, promise.
Bitter much?
Oh boy... care to clarify that statement?
Arde0 said:I sure hope the Wii does the same thing too....lets take a collective giant step backwards in game develpment...it will be good for the industry, promise.
Sgt. Killjoy said:omg i really do think they are all playing DSL. All their heads are looking towards the ground.
Arde0 said:Does the hardon for DS sales numbers come from Sony doing so poorly or Nintendo doing so well? Just curious.
I sure hope the Wii does the same thing too....lets take a collective giant step backwards in game develpment...it will be good for the industry, promise.
Jibber Hack said:And there is no doubt that the PS3 will be as successful as the PS and PS2.
omg rite said:where have you been exactly?
Jibber Hack said:And there is not doubt that the PS3 will be as successful as the PS and PS2.
Jibber Hack said:Sony is not doing poorly. It's got millions of PSPs sold around the world. It's just that the DS is not the big **** up that people *cough*Sony fans*cough* expected it to be.
And there is not doubt that the PS3 will be as successful as the PS and PS2. Look at the games! I just hope Nintendo can pull off the same kind of success with the Wii.
Link648099 said:Does Nintendo's DS also print Japanese humans to buy it?
jarrod said:The only market where DS trails GBA is the US and that finally starting to turn around. Worldwide though, DS is almost certainly going beat GBA's total lifetime sales. It's going to be creeping up on GBC's ltd (49m) by this time next year probably imo.
Barf_the_Mog said:can the DS sell 30 million units with PSP competition in just a few years?
donny2112 said:
Jibber Hack said:You guys are horrible! :lol
Okay, I'll say that PS3 won't be the big **** up that so many expect it to be... It'll still be successful.
can the DS sell 30 million units with PSP competition in just a few years?
Barf_the_Mog said:It's starting to turn around? By the end of its second full year, the GBA had sold over 22 million units in the America. The DS will be lucky to make 10 million. The GBA will probably stall at around 40 million in the US...can the DS sell 30 million units with PSP competition in just a few years?
Frankfurter said:GBA is at about 33m in the USA. It's basically impossible for it to come even close to 40m.
WalkMan said:You can't keep this up forever Nintendo! Eventually you're going to reach Japan's population limit, THEN what are you going to do?
Barf_the_Mog said:The link I posted above states that close to 37 million GBA units have been sold. I imagine that the GBA will continue to sell throughout 2007, so 40 million is probably conservative.
And non-games that require two DS units!Neo_Dasus said:New color, or special pokemon edition.
I'm under the impression that they're always that crazy or crazier, especially for Dragon Quest.negitoro7 said:Were the (single day) lineups ever that crazy for Dragon Quest or FF games?
E-Nature said:I wonder what drinky crow has to say right now
Well, the turnaround just started with Lite/NSMB. The inevitable $99 price drop and Pokemon DP are what will be the real sales drivers though, that marks the entry point for the massive kids GBA audience to upgrade.Barf_the_Mog said:It's starting to turn around? By the end of its second full year, the GBA had sold over 22 million units in the America. The DS will be lucky to make 10 million. The GBA will probably stall at around 40 million in the US...can the DS sell 30 million units with PSP competition in just a few years?
Barf_the_Mog said:The link I posted above states that close to 37 million GBA units have been sold. I imagine that the GBA will continue to sell throughout 2007, so 40 million is probably conservative.
Frankfurter said:The link you posted is either not only using sales from the USA (like cvxfreak said), is using false data or just adds somekind of percentage to the NPD figures (which afaik is the case). And just btw. if the latter is the case, then I just have to say that this method is certainly wrong, unless someone can explain how Nintendo sold through 5,959,500 DS in the USA till the end of June, but only shipped 5.90m to NA till the end of June.
Don't lie, you know you can't make out what theyre playing.jj984jj said:I see people with PSPs and GBAs, but certainly not DS Lites.
salva said:is the DS a way of life in japan?