Kudos to TheSource for looking up info on GC post-launch period. That 16 million estimate for DS... On which they delivered 23.5 million... Is evidence enough for me that the 14 million Wiis they are promising will have a great deal of flexability... Even though with Wii they have not shown enough flexability until just recently... And in fact, the 22 million DSs sounds like they are undershooting demand again... DS really took off in North America and Europe with the launch of the Lite, and only now is reaching PS2-type sales, with 500K in each of the last two months in NA alone... That 500K a month transfers to demand of 9-10 million a year... With Europe seemingly selling in step with NA, they may also have demand for 9-10 million a year... And Japan is buying 500K a month as well, though without the same Xmas boost they'll be at 7.5-9 million a year... It adds up to more than 22 million any way you look at it...
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
