| spurgeonryan said:
Maybe I am wrong here, but I am pretty sure that Nintendo only stopped shipping it to Japan. Sales in the West are still alright. PS2 was done last year I believe. Either way, if the PS2 is a couple million ahead of the DS, then the DS has no chance even with Christmas. Unless Nintendo sells a couple million at 70 dollars a piece. But then that would undermine the 3DS. |
The PS2 likely outshipped the DS in the past 12 months. Sony shipped 16.5 million PS2/PS3's this past fiscal year. Since the PS3 was down YoY, that would mean at least 2.6 million PS2's were shipped. The DS in comparison shipped 2.35 million. The PS2 also outshipped it for 2/4 quarters in the 12 months before that.
The DS is basically done outside of the US. In the past six months, Nintendo has only shipped 40k outside of the Americas. If the 2.6 million number is accurate, then the DS is at least 3.83 million behind.
