DSi LL launch in Japan

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letsdance said:

Buzzi said:

letsdance said:

Buzzi said:

samus aran rules said:

jarrod said:

samus aran rules said:
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It will surely be a bigger hit than PSPgo saleswise. I cannot imagine this selling worse.

First Japanese shipment for LL is evidently the same as GO's was (150k) btw.

Yes. The difference is that this one will most likely actually sell out it´s first shipment quite fast whereas PSPgo will see a long time coming before a second shipment is needed.

I'm sure DSiLL will sell 150k in less than a month, while psp Go still hasn't sold 1/3 of its first shipment in 3 weeks.

30k + 15k + 6.6k = 51.6k / 150k = 34.4% math failed in school?

LOL I have 9 in Maths :D

For some strange reason I thought the totale sales for PSP Go! were at 49k...anyway 34.4% in 3 weeks is not good, especially since the console didn't double it's first two days sales. At this rate probably it will need more than a month to sell the first shipment, even with the holidays approaching.

You don't think Sony took the holidays into consideration when shipping their product? I'm shocked Nintendo didnt ship more because of them. Go's sales will be around 6k again then start to raise after that. I say at least 80k in Dec.

Anyway, I've said it when the Go launch... and again it fits here. The PSP =/= DS. Sony =/= Nintendo in handhelds. I don't know why you guys are so obsessed with holding Sony to the same standards as Nintendo in the handheld market. He should hold them to Sega standards which got less than 5% of the market. Nintendo has had a hanheld monopoly for 20 years. the PSP isnt comparable to the DS and the PSP is very successful.

But in this case the poor sales are because of an high price and lack of UMDs.

While you can change your DSL with a DSi or DSi LL (and Japan people love to upgrade every time) with the Go! model you have to loose all your games and pay for them when they're on PSN.

And for the Nintendo standards, the PSP 3000 fought for 50% of the year marketshare in 2008, and every launch of a new model was as big as DS new models' launches (or a bit low but not very much)...so we're not having mistake there.

And even with those 80-90k in December still the first shipment would not be sold out. Even if I'm not sure it will be able to do that, IMHO the sales will be around 5-12k without a price cut for the model.