Implications of DS being flat in it's fifth year?

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Demotruk said:

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.

People always say that, but in it's first year DS had a much stronger launch than PSP, and it was outselling it most of the time. It went on to have a stronger holiday than PSP. The PSP had a couple of spikes where it sold fantastically (big game releases) and outsold DS by a small amount for the following weeks.

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=DS®1=All&cons2=PSP®2=All&cons3=DS®3=All&weeks=60

http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=DS®1=All&cons2=PSP®2=All&cons3=DS®3=All&start=38298&end=38718

Many people (including me) probably remember the DS as starting poorly because the media was so down on it at first. Meanwhile, the PSP was the media darling that was going to destroy Nintendo.