TWRoO on 19 November 2008
| NintendoMan said: I am surprised at how quick DS sales are falling back. I would have expected DSi to remain above 100k for at least another week. Seems that Nintendo is not going to get back its 100k+ weekly sales after all. They probably would have seen better sales with a price cut for DSLite in my opinion. |
I hope you realise 100k per week in Japan is frankly an astonishing number, the DS is a marvel to have managed consistant sales in Japan above 100k (in fact many weeks above 150k)
Apart from launch and Christmas/New Year boosts.... the PS2 only managed 7 weeks above 100k, That's the PS2, and just 7 weeks
I think people seem to assume that Japan is somehow an equal market to Americas or Europe, but it's not... it's much smaller and has been for a while because it had less scope for increase, in the same way that Europe will eventually become a bigger market than North America. (And if a few things are worked out/stamped out, Asia may then become bigger than Europe)
