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Nintendo DS Sales Driving Games Industry Growth

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the moving-on-up dept.

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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  1. Time to install Linux by stsp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you want to try Linux on your DS, check here: dslinux.org

  2. Re:Wow, that's just sad. by brkello · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Stupid comparison. MS isn't even in the handheld market...which has always been dominated by Nintendo. On top of that, you are telling them to play a game developed for the PS2. Besides, a console can't be "more fun" than another...that is soley dependant on the games. Additionally, the DS is by far cheaper...much easier to sell to parents who want to keep their kids quiet.

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  3. Re:GNAA NEED YOU by Zardus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, BSD confirms the GNAA trolls are dying? :-(

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