| That Guy said: All I can say is "Scoreboard!" It is what it is. Wii detractors can spin things however way they want, or they can come up with lists of future games, but Wii is taking off. There's no way to downplay that :-p
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The Wii may be selling like hotcakes, but that doesn't mean that this headline isn't silly. The DS launch was pretty underwhelming, honestly. I worked at Best Buy at the time, and we had a whole table dedicated to DS with a launch strategy and everything. We had plans for how to manage the line outside if it got big, and expected a sellout crowd. I think we sold like 7 DSes out of our shipment of more than 60.
I'm no spinmaster -- the only current-gen console I own is a Wii, but this comparison is still meaningless. Saying that the Wii launched better than the DS is like saying I can run faster than a snail.
