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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. DSs vs. DS's by bodrell · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Thanks to Setup Weasel for getting the syntax right. I'm fucking sick of people always using apostophe-s for plurals. I've even seen this written on a whiteboard in a diner:
    Ham and egg's - $3.00
    And people, the plural of "CD" is "CDs," NOT CD's.

    I can only think of one exception to the rule: if you are talking about more than one "A," such as getting straight A's, omitting the apostrophe makes it looks like "As" which would be very confusing.

    For all you programmers: you don't like reading spaghetti-code, so why write spaghetti English?

    --
    Si la vida me da palo, yo la voy a soportar Si la vida me da palo, yo la voy a espabilar
  2. Re:Ergonomics are poor, 3d OK. Mixed bag by jubei · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If I am traveling with a backpack, the extra space of a comfortable controller wouldn't matter much, though you probably would have to have a way to slip the DS into the controller so that you could hold the screens in the right way.

    I don't think that using the sytlus would work well when playing games. You need to use those fingers to hold the DS.

    My main complaint about the screen I guess is the resolution. It should be at least 320x240 now. I retract my comment about it not being ready for 3d. The poly count is probably better than a PS1. However, the resolution is sorely lacking.

    I am excited about the wireless and the possible hackability of it though.