Nintendo DS sales in South Korea

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celine said:

mrstickball said:
Actually, 500k in Korea for a handheld isn't that huge. PSP has sold over 1m+ there already, as far as I remember.

PSP was lauched in Korea in May 2005.

I found this article by Korea Times with date 09/04/2007 that talk about the new model of PSP ( slim ) .

In this article there is the quote :

" A total of 360,000 PSP consoles have been sold in Korea, accounting for about 60 percent of the portable game console market here. Nintendo DS, a major competitor in the market, has sold about 300,000."

Maybe they are talking about units sold to customers until Agust ( I'm not sure ).

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2007/09/123_9547.html

I think that 520K DS units sold to retailers is a great achievement for a portable console and for Nintendo.

mrstickball's memory was off? If the numbers from the Korean Times are correct then perhaps.

I wonder why the DS is doing so well against the PSP? I think something like Monster Hunter would go over well there.