reverie on 18 April 2007
In Japan the DS skyrocketed at the End of '05. At 600k, it probably had the biggest weekly sales of all time (outside launch weeks). In early '06 Nintendo had to apologize to Japanese Customers because the DS fat was seriously sold out for weeks. That was before the DS Lite. The DS Lite has helped in the US and Europe, but in Japan the DS won on games like Brain Training and Animal Crossing. I'm still looking for that kind of Japanese epiphany for the Wii. It's not Wii Sports.
Hardcore gaming is a bubble economy blown up by Microsoft's $7 $6 billion losses.
