| Yakuzaice said: The end of March will mark the end of the ninth fiscal year that the DS has been released in the main three markets. Nintendo's forecast is 2.3 million shipped. In the ninth fiscal year of full release the PS2 shipped 7.9 million units. If we count the fact that it released in Japan in the previous fiscal year then it would be 13.7 million in its ninth fiscal year. Three years later it was still doing 4.1 million in a fiscal year, 78% more than Nintendo expects for the DS this FY. In their earnings report, Nintendo listed no first party games coming to the DS in 2013, 1 3rd party game in the US, 4 in Europe, and 0 in Japan. These games are... The Croods: Prehistoric Party! So which of these games is going to push DS sales for the next five years? The DS is not the PS2, and is not going to last 5 more years. By then we'll probably have a 3DS successor. |
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