Famitsu 2007-04-09/ 2007-04-15

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tryffel8 said:

I just dont understand why the DS numbers never seem to be higher then around 120 and its been that for a long time now.. Some months ago, they where always at 150 and i thougt that they could hold up the production is the same level or even increase it.. Whats wrong? I friend of my that visit Japan in March told me that its still almost impossible to find a DS.

Distribution to other countries AND stockpiling. Golden Week is coming up, Pokemon released in the US, and they may be stockpiling units for Xmas already (10k a week is only an extra 500k for Xmas - not enough!).

This weeks chart (IMO) is the strongest warning yet to Sony - lift your next-gen game, or become irrelevant. PSP & PS3 software sales only account for 6% of the total market (Wii almost double that - and with no titles out recently, and the big titles to come).

At the moment PS2 is still keeping Sony afloat - companies are working on their last batches of PS2 titles, and moving production to other systems (although some titles may appear for years to come).

At least PSP seems to have some legs - 30k hardware - although this isn't really translated into software sales.

Not sure what  else "big" is coming out soon, but there is a chance for complete DS/Wii domination for the next few weeks as the big titles arrive (hopefully with lots of hardware shipped as well).