Has DS passed PS2 yet?

[mai]

thismeintiel said:

mai said:

When someone mentiones DS passing PS2, people are getting defensive :D

Personally, I find it amusing that DS even reached that number, given how historically handhelds sell only fraction of what home consoles were selling.

Huh?  The NES sold ~62M, while the Gameboy sold almost twice that, ~119M.  The GBA sold ~82M, more than Gamecube's ~22M and Xbox's ~24M.  And the DS has outsold all home consoles from this gen.  So no, it's much more surprising that the PS2 reached >157M, as it has actually outsold both the handhelds that started in its gen, while being much more expensive.

Split the sales yearly (or any other time sampling you'd like) and you'll see what you didn't seem to get in my post, or maybe I worded it badly.

Actually a while ago I did a graph on yearly sales -- handhelds combined vs. home consoles combined starting from 1989 -- and posted it here just to have a graphical visualization of my point. It is probably still somewhere here, deep down into the depths of VGC forum. Handhelds sales starting from 2006 look like huge bump on this graph that more or less even them (first time in history) with home consoles sales (mostly due to DS obviously).

//So it pretty much shows what a beast DS was, as how fast it was selling. It did beat some previous handhelds records as well, like attach rate (not quite console level attach rate, but quite big one for a handheld of this popularity, smaller userbases tend to have bigger attach rates most of the time).