| dharh said: Nintendogs was the killer app that got the DS a foothold in North America. Mario carried it forward a year later. The DSLite drops in the same year, effective but not mind blowing until christmas of that same year 2006. Then over the course of six months proceeds to sell more than it sold in the prior year and a half. At that point is was a combo of major sentiment, mario and nintendogs. I say good sentiment because the sheer volume of DS sales outpaced any of the games sold for it during that time. People bought the DS just to own the DS regardless of the games. |
Very interesting! Are you on pro by any chance?
Obviously Nintendo led the 2006 sales trends, as it sold as much as Nintendogs did in all of 2006 in as little as 33 weeks. However, the ramping up of DS sales is part of a massive haul of slugger hits, as weel as a well-embraced remodel (the DSLite as you say). To say it's all about Mario is a terrible overstatement. That Mario led the wave, it's fair as long as it's not used out of context to push ideas that are simply untrue (>.> Rol).
