Will 2010 be DS's weakest year?

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DarkNight_DS said:
I plan to buy the DSi XL. I already have a DS Lite and my wife has my old DS. I think quite a few of the people saying that the DSi XL is going to bomb are also the same people in a few months who will pick one up for themselves once they see it.

As for games, this past year was pretty bad. I bought less games this last year then I have any other year since Mario Kart DS was released. It's kinda sad. I was hoping for more games like GTA China Town Wars, Retro Game challenge etc to get released. Not that I didn't buy a lot of DS games this year... just not as many as I did the 2 prior years.

Well, DSi XL won't be a bomb but it won't be anywhere near as huge as DSi or DS Lite either. DSi XL sales are already below DSi in Japan (after just few weeks) so it will never become main SKU there and I doubt anywhere else either. Of course, sales will still be good but it won't sell as much as normal-sized DSi next year. It just slows the drop in harware sales but isn't quite enough to stop hardware sales drop. DSi XL is still a great secondary SKU though.

Sales of software is different matter and I believe software sales are going to be better than this year.

But... This can't be weakest year whether we talk about hardware or software anyway. 2010 can't be below 2005 sales unless there is a worldwide catastrophe.