Fayceless on 04 July 2008
| smbu2000 said: Nintendo needs to release a new color for the DSL in Japan. The last new one was the crimson/black a few months ago. It also needs for big games to be released.(Derby Stallion just gave it a nice boost in JP) Should have nice bumps during the DQ re-make releases, but DQIX will give it the biggest boost of all. Pretty much everywhere outside of Japan, the DS is crushing the PSP. Taking a look at this weeks sales the DSL sold 502K out of the total 701K handhelds sold(DSL+PSP total for the week), which amounts to about 71% of the total for the week. If the DSL can keep it up for awhile then it will be able to surpass the 70% mark for total marketshare. |
That 502k is the Wii's numbers for the week. I know, it's easy to get confused this week as usually the DS is the #1 seller!
This week the DS's 417k was 67.9% of the market share, slightly higher than it's total market share. I kind of doubt the DS will be getting a big boost any time soon, so I think the market share will probably stay close to where it is, unless for whatever reason the PSP gets really big.
Though another remodel would (artificially) boost market share, this is true.
Without a remodel it would consistiently have to sell over 2 1/3 times as many units as the PSP.
