Nintendo DS Sales Driving Games Industry Growth

VonSnouty writes "After watching Sony and to a lesser extent Microsoft stealing market share over the past few years, the DS is seeing Nintendo producing its most bullish numbers for years. Indeed, it's just used the latest NPD figures to claim that the Nintendo DS is largely responsible for US games industry growth in 2006 so far. From the article: 'Up until the end of September, the U.S. industry overall shows revenue growth of 11 per cent when compared with the same period in 2005. Nearly all of the growth comes from the portable DS — without it, the industry would report a mere 1.6 per cent growth over the past nine months.'"

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Wow, that's just sad.

[thatguywhoiam]

"Nearly all of the growth comes from the portable DS -- without it, the industry would report a mere 1.6 per cent growth over the past nine months."

Xbox management team: you are fired. Seriously. Just got your next-gen ass handed to you by an cheap white handheld with two buttons. Because its more fun.

You are sentenced to go play Katamari Damacy and Brain Age for two years.

Re:Its the untapped market

[TrickFred]

Are you kidding? My wife (yes, a mom of two) is foaming at the mouth to get Nintendogs, and that new 'Cooking Mama' game... and up until a year ago, I couldn't get her to play a game for more than ten minutes, other than playing Chrono Trigger halfway through (with level 99 characters on my New Game+, back in 1996) when she was laid up sick for a week.

I really don't think I'm going to be able to hang on to them until Xmas; she's about ready to go out and buy them on her own...

Re:Its the untapped market

[senatorpjt]

Brain Age is horrible for the casual gamer. It makes me feel guilty if I don't play it every day.