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10 Million Nintendo DS Units Sold Since Launch
DS Gamer writes "Nintendo has announced that worldwide sales of their twin-screen handheld console the Nintendo DS have reached the 10 million mark since its launch in the United States during late November 2004. The vast majority of sales have been in the United States (4 million) and Japan (5 million) where the DS became the fastest selling games machine of all time. From the Reuters article: 'It is on the upswing of its life cycle," Perrin Kaplan, Nintendo of America's vice president of marketing, told Reuters in a telephone interview. She declined to give a sales forecast but said the Japan-based company would provide additional information during its upcoming quarterly financial report. Kaplan added that Nintendo's seven-week-old Wi-Fi Connection wireless gaming service has had more than 550,000 unique visitors globally.'" Commentary is available on Forbes and Gamespot.
> Sony, which likes to brag about how many units have been shipped out of their factories but
> not about how many have actually left the store.
What's the difference (in units) and for how long is there a difference? Does this difference get larger every month?
> That said, I'm a big Nintendo fan
Exactly, it's something of a fanboy argument, given that ultimately every unit will get sold.
Except that this is the same stories Nintendo fanboys come up with every console launch -- Revolution being no exception. The Gamecube was not successful. The N64 was not successful. The SNES was successful, but certainly took a beating from the Genesis. The NES was widely successful because Nintendo dared launch a console when no one else would.
Nintendo has owned the handheld market. The handheld market is not the same as the console market. MS and Sony "get it" -- people do want some kind of convergence in the living room. All the people who complain when custom soundtracks aren't enabled in an Xbox game are proof of this. Ditto everyone who originally scoffed at MS's HDTV pitch then realized how good it looks.
There's some damn fine games on every console. Nintendo having a special controller isn't going to make them any more successful than they were the Gamecube Wavebird, N64 Rumble Pak, etc.
What's going to happen, and Nintendo fans do not want to admit this, is that Nintendo is going to become a software company. Like Sega, they will publish for other companies' consoles. They'll continue to make handhelds, because they're good at this, but the war for the living room is going to be between Sony and MS. After this generation, there will only be 2 hardware manufacturers.
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