what do you think was a bigger risk for nintendo:DS or Wii

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cdude1034 said:

I don't quite get the DS arguments. The DS came out in 2004, two years before the PSP and the handheld wars. There was little to no risk because Ninty could've gone back to the drawing board completely and still made it out ok.

With the Wii, Ninty was coming off a pretty embarrassing third place finish in the previous generation and they were introducing something pretty new to the industry and attempting to make it a standard for their new platform. The Wii probably had higher R&D costs based off of what I believe to be common sense, but I don't have the numbers to back that up.

 

Edit: spelling

The DS at least in Japan come one week before the PSP not two years.