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http://www.vgcharts.org/news New figures from Chart-Track have revealed that more than 3 million people in the UK now own a Nintendo DS or DS Lite. According to a statement issued by Nintendo, DS was the best-selling platform during 2006 and "has already established itself as the UK market leading hardware format again so far in 2007". DS is also winning the battle of the handhelds, according to Chart-Track, securing a 68 per cent share of the UK market during the first three months of this year.



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That's very curious seeing as how UK is usually a Sony-loyal territory. Nintendo has historically flubbed the whole Europe region (I'm surprised Europeans even remain console gamers after all the slights they get from all the companies) & its name isn't as strong there as in Japan & North America. Not getting games over to them in time, the pricing, & just the general afterthought approach to that complex market. I always said that Nintendo needed to tighten up on its PAL territories to pick up more loyal audiences. It looks like they finally are making strides in that direction starting with DS. But seeing how well PS3 did at launch over there DESPITE all that has gone on I would think Sony's handheld, the PSP, would receive similar regard. I have lots to learn about the PAL markets AKA the rest of the world. This is something I'm interested in studying/learning about. John Lucas



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I live in a PAL territory... However, i would still buy a PS3 iff i wanted to, even iff Sony would push the PS3 into Sep 07... Just because i might want it... (I don't want it but still)... And btw, Europe is the biggest market in the world as of '03/'04. As such, it is being taken very seriously and the BIG 3 are not slackin around... I'm seeing lots of commercials, first for X360, the last 5 months for Wii and the last 2 weeks for PS3... (The PS3' suck... 'This is living, yeah right...'... Another thing, Nintendo is taking PAL territories VERY, VERY seriously. Games launch only weeks after their Japanese version and even Super paper mario Wii is scheduled for April in NTSC and PAL territories...



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As much as I would like to believe otherwise, I haven't heard about a Super Paper Mario PAL release date yet... 0.o



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