JAPAN SALES: PSP+Wii+X360+PS3=DS!!!!!

[kingofwale]

Zucas said:

kingofwale said:

Zucas said:

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. 

 

clearly, when I said "dominated if not monopolized"... I meant in the handheld market.

 

nobody in their right mind would consider N64 and GC for any of those terms. ;)

 

 

Nobody in their right mind would say nintendo "dominated if not monoplizied" in the handheld market before this gen because the only response would be a "Duh".  It's not hard when you have virtually no competitor. 

So no, I have no idea what you were saying now haha.  No seriously.  I guess if you were trying to say that dominance carried over (which at first it didn't) then I guess that would make it not shocking, although DS didn't just automatically start off strong as it was coming off a weaker performing GBA.

really?? Do you really consider 80+ million unit sold in 3 and half, and over 16 million units sold in Japan as "weaker performing"??

The only reason DS sold more is because it's been in the market for much longer

 

look at the chart:

GBA: March 21, 2001 - the day DS is launched   (Gen: 3.5 years):   81 million
DS: November 21, 2004 - present (Gen: close to 6 years and counting): 130 million