| SKMBlake said: Let's settle this: if people were willing to buy 154 and 157 million DS and PS2, that tells how appealing the consoles were. No matter how long they lasted. |
If you ignore Nintendo purposefully didn't give the DS a chance to sell much past 150 million, if you ignore the DS smoked the PS2 getting to 150 mill almost FOUR YEARS EARLIER.
No reasonable person can honestly sit there and say if the DS was allowed to have 2-3 more years of decent shipments by Nintendo at a price of $99.99 or less that it wouldn't have topped 160 million at least. Probably would have topped 170 million.
This has nothing to do with demand. It literally is a textbook case of a situation where factors outside of demand determined the final LTD (Nintendo panicked after the 3DS had a slow start and choked DS sales/shipments to a trickle in order to force people to buy a 3DS).
