jarrod on 11 January 2010
| Nintendogamer said: Remember DS had a luke-warm start too, it didn't take off amazingly, even the PSP was ahead of it at the beginning whe nall of a sudden DS is more than double it's sales! Nintendo has really expanded the market, and I expect DS sales to hit 200 Million sometime in 2015. 250 Million is even possible if some miracle happened, that would happen in 2017- 2019. |
DS was a slow burn compared to GBA, but after Nintendogs hit it was consistently ahead of PSP (about 6-9 months), and when the Lite/NSMB/Brain-Age combo landed, it shot into the stratosphere of PS2 killing territory (about 18 months).
PS1 had a much slower start (it really didn't take off until mid/late 1997) as did NES/Famicom (same thing, around 1987/88 is when it really went crazy), but DS did have a slower start than the other huge selling systems (SNES, PS2, GBA, Wii). It's probably most comparable to the original GB.
