akuseru said:
pfff you know perfectly well why not. DS is a portable! It's that simple. It caters to many additional markets compared to home consoles. You don't buy a home console if you're going traveling. you don't buy a home console if you don't have a television set (for instance in Norway, you are obligates to pay the government a yearly subscription for their TV channels when you buy a television set, thus many students do no have a television set). there are also a bigger chance that families with 2 kids buy 2 DSs. You can't play 2 player on one handheld but you can on a home console, so two brothers will be more likely to have 2 DSs than 2 similar home consoles. also little children, like my 2 and a half year old cousin, are more likely to get a DS than a home console. home consoles also tend to be way more expensive. I'm not downplaying the DS's QUALITY here. I'm traveling right now, to DS heaven to be more precise, and of course I brought my DS and PSP. DS have quality games and is a quality platform no doubt about that. but comparing handheld sales to a home consoles sales is not justified imo. If however, the Wii surpasses it, it is an amazing achievement. also at the sales Soriku presented. are you sure they are right? about 2 years ago I read somewhere that the PS2 had already surpassed 140 million units. but of course, that could very well be wrong! also the DS will surpass the PS2 in 10-24 months depending on what the real PS2 numbers are. |
PS2 had a huge failure rate, my brother and cousin combined have gone through about 5. Again, not saying PS2 doesn't deserve all of the sales it got but people DO buy multiple consoles.
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