HappySqurriel said:
Although the staggered launch of the PS2 has some impact on this, the DS has sold 22 Million more systems than the PS2 did at a similar point in its life: http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=DS®1=All&cons2=PS2®2=All&cons3=PS®3=All&weeks=260 And the Weekly sales average of the Nintendo DS is way above what the PS2 ever accomplished: http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=DS®1=All&cons2=PS2®2=All&cons3=PS®3=All&weeks=260&weekly=1 To top this all off the Nintendo DS will be (very) close to 100 Million systems sold by January 1st 2009, a new handheld from Nintendo (probably) won't be released before Q4 2010, and the DS will continue to sell for (at least) a year after the new handheld is released; this means that the Nintendo DS has (roughly) 3 years to sell 30 Million units, and has averaged over 30 million units per year lately. I get the feeling the Nintendo DS is going to blow past the PS2 numbers like the PS2 was standing still. |
I don't see it happening.
The thing with the PS2 is, it has consistency. It's still selling fairly well after 8 years.
The DS has another 60-70 million to go to beat the PS2.
