DS Claims EU Dominance

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 11, 2006 @02:51AM from the winning-the-war dept.

Gamasutra reports that, at least in the EU, the Nintendo DS has the portable war pretty much locked up for the time being. 200,000 units of the DS Lite were sold in the ten days after its launch. From the article: "According to Nintendo of Europe, the Nintendo DS has now secured the lead in the handheld market in Europe, with sales of the format exceeding 5 million. No sales figures from Sony are available to compare directly, with only a "shipped" figure of almost 6 million for all territories bar North America and Japan." Interestingly, 136,500 units were sold in the United States in just the first two days after the handheld console's launch.

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Not all of those things... by fistfullast33l · 2006-07-11 04:09 · Score: -1, Troll

Just a rebuttal:

Region Free is undoubtedly a big win (I almost, ALMOST picked up a black DS Lite when I was in europe).

The PSP games are region free as well. It's only the movies that are region limited. But then again, the DS doesn't play movies so that doesn't matter much, does it?

The gameplay is innovative: The touchscreen is producing some very cool results, including a lot of non-gamer games

Kind of like a PDA? Haven't seen that before...Besides what innovative gameplay are you experiencing? Nintendogs, which turns your DS into a $150 digital pet? Can you say Tamagotchi? The brain game that is basically an IQ quiz for $20? Or is it Metroid and Mariokart sequels which now just have a different control scheme?