| kingofwale said: well, it is out the longest, it has the lowest price point and in a market that has been dominated (if not monopolized) by Nintendo for god-knows how long is this really a shocker to anybody? |
Well considering GBA only sold a little more than half of what the DS has sold in Japan, has only 4 million sellers in Japan, and very few 3rd party sucesses I'd say that last part is hardly true. Especially considering console wise for N64 and GC had very little impact at all, it hasn't been Nintendo dominated at all. Not even in the slightest. Not sense the days of the SNES. Only dominating franchise Nintendo has even had there in the time between that and DS has been Pokemon. Nintendo's domination of the Japanese market (like the other markets) is something that has happened fairly recent. In better perspective, not really until 2006 and 2007 did you see this domination, although DS was doing well in 2005 in Japan.
Also PSP didn't release that long after DS in Japan. They've been on the market for about the same time. So yes it is not only shocking it's simply amazing how quickly the market turned around. Shows how strong of a release the DS was in the Japanese market.
