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400,000 Additional DSs Available by Year's End
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.
I had the chance to play one of these with Metroid. I really liked it. There seems to be some discussion over the usefulness of the touch pad and I've found that the touch pad servers to mimic a mouse in fps's quite well. I felt at home pretty quickly. It was quite responsive too. I'm still holding out for the PSP though. I think nintendo games are a little too cute for me.
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...if these people just artificially inflate demand around the holidays through talk about "undersupply", and then pop a load of 'em on the market just in time. Nah, couldn't possibly be! [Just like every other year.]
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what the heck is a "DS"? Did I miss anything?
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The vast majority of my GB games are for the original gray GB. Looks like I'll be hanging on to the trusty ol' gray one (and my GBC and GBA) until there's some killer "must have" game, like a new Mario Kart.
Wow that is a suprise: American units outselling Japan Units. I applaud Nintendo of America for boosting available units. Unlike what happened with that tragic accident with the Nintendo 64.
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Nintendo's been saying a couple things; its codename was DS for "Developer's System," since they wanted to make it super nice for their developers; then it was "Dual Screen" because of the two screens. Then they couldn't come up with a better name, so they just kept it as "DS."
If they sell them all (at Amazon prices)...
1.4m DSes sold, that's 0.3bn dollars, or 0.02bn pounds. Remove the ammount they pair their retail channel...
Just goes to show how truely insignificant the market for games consoles is. IBM's now-ex PC business has an $11bn turnover, 37 times the size of Nintendo's DS turnover (ignoring SPA sales for now), and IBM isn't even a big player in the PC market.
Curiously enough if you owned the US monopoly on DSes then you could purchase 150 million beers. Sufficient for any party one might think.
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just in case anyone is not aware, the Nintendo portable systems are the most popular consoles on the planet. I don't have the hard #s in front of me, but I think there are probably twice the # of GBAs owned by people than Playstation 2s. And we all know how much of lead the PS2 has on the xbox and gamecube.
Does this mean the PSP will be doomed because the previous generation of handheld gamers are used to nintendo? Certainly not. As technology increases and people become more tech-savvy, i think people start to lose more brand loyalty and start going to the items that have the features they want. If the PSP is what someone is looking for in a handheld device, they'll pick one up. Similarily for the DS.
The one big advantage I see is that the DS can play all previous gameboy games. For those millions upon millions of people with GBAs already, the DS gives them a new system with new and innovative games, and a way to play their old games too. Don't underestimate that. Hell, that may be one of the reasons the Playstation 2 has done so well throughout the years, even though it's graphics technology is inferior to the other consoles... Food for thought
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