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400,000 Additional DSs Available by Year's End

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-800,000-screens! dept.

SetupWeasel writes "The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is reporting that 400,000 additional DSs will be shipped to the US by year's end. This will bring the US total to 1.4 million by the end of 2004." There's also a story running on Gamesindustry.biz regarding DS sales being in line with the sales of the Gameboy Advance.

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  1. Re:Call me ignorant, but... by BRSQUIRRL · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not going to call you ignorant, because I myself have noticed be a bit of acronymic presumption on the part of Slashdot editors...and it seems to be especially common in gaming-related stories. I've lost count of how many stories concerning the "DS" or the "PSP" (products that have barely been released) have been posted that fail to actually mention what they ARE.

    Now I can understand not defining "PHP" or "RIAA"...but not everyone stays on the cutting edge of game technology. Anyway...

    DS
    PSP

  2. Re:I found out... by sacherjj · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah, no kidding. A little more description might be nice. My RSS feed said "400,000 Additional DSs Available by Year's End"

    I'm thinking Domain Servers? (Do we need them?)

    Dhrystone per Second? (But shouldn't we concentrate on benchmarking Floating Point too?)

    Data Sources? (There is already too much to read out there, I really don't need 400,000 more places to get data.)

    Digital Signals? (I didn't think broadcasts in the US had to go digital until 2006?)

    Just the word "Nintendo" would have been good for those of us too busy to play games all the time.

  3. Re:I found out... by Mike+the+Mac+Geek · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, it's code name was "Nitro".

    On the Warioware sire (Nintendo's developer portal), there was development for the Gamecube, the GBA, and the "Nitro" shortly after it was first shown.

    Also, look at the part numbers on each component. On the Gamecube it is "GCN-XXX". On the GBA, it's "AGB-XXX". On the DS, the code is "NTR-XXX". The easiest way to see is on the game cards, on the back for the generic cart number (NTR-005) and the front sticker for the game-specfic part number (NTR-ASME-USA for Mario 64 DS.)

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