Out of curiosity, do you have North America and Japan graphs? I want to see how well DS is doing there. USA is DS's largest market ATM.

@Michael The 3DS is very unlikely to be cut short, like the GBA. 3DS could go either way though, whether its higher than DS or lower it should still be pretty good. I think the DS brand may be done after the 3DS though. Ninty tends to create new brands every 2 gens. I hope it is something new, to bring back that DS flare. Same with the Wii brand. After WiiU, Ninty may be coming with something never seen before, I hope so atleast.

Precisely, thats what Ninty knows as well. Ninty probably knows the 3DS can't expand any further than the DS since it has it's sequels. Same with WiiU. Expand into red territory, while still catering to the blue ocean created last gen. That's Ninty's motto with 3DS and WiiU I think. Next gen we will see Ninty creating new brands to expand farther than what the DS and Wii carved out.

See his thread, it has all 3.

Well, lets see how well these systems do. ATM I have no plans to get a 3DS because I have too many DS games to beat, and the games I am interested in are fall 2013 titles (Fire Emblem and Bravery Default if it comes out in NA). I also have no plans to get a Wii U because I'm a relatively new Wii owner and have only beaten 2 of my 20 Wii games.

Nintendo seems to be doing a good job attracting 3rd party developers to make games for the Wii U, but I wish they made the Mass Effect Trilogy for Wii U. 3DS to me seems to be doing okay, but I don't think Nintendo will ever make a handheld with as strong of a software lineup as they did for GBA (at least not to me).

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=149090&page=1

That thread? Doesn't have a sonnected scatter graph like above. I want to see weekly variations.

It has monthly for USA, and weekly for handhelds in japan at least.

Well what you said is half right.

PS2 does ship to less core gaming markets (like Brazil, and South Africa) where DS mostly ships to prime markets. However what this means is that Nintendo ships to larger retailers like Best Buy, where PS2 is selling in small retailers primarily (EB Games/Coscto/BestBuy don't sell PS2's, but The Sony Store did not to long ago, maybe they still do). What this means that if say PS2 and DS shipped the same number of units, PS2's will be spread out over more stores (So maybe each store which carries PS2's will carry an average of 1-2 PS2's), but DS's shipments are more concentrated (so maybe retailers carry 5-10 DS systems on average). What this means is that more PS2's are on store shelves, being sold at retailers which really don't sell PS2's, Where DS's could be selling their inventory because it isn't hard to keep stock if the system is selling in limited retailers and fairly well.

However, realistically there won't be a huge difference from Shipped-Sold ratios between PS2 and DS. However if we see an instance where PS2 ships 50,000 more units then DS, it really isn't correct to say PS2 is outselling DS because we simply don't know that.

That said, I have my fingers crossed for DS, but.....it doesn't look too too good. No DS micro to give the system a last second boost in sales lol.

Those shipped consoles will be sold eventually.

Yes, that's true, eventually, where DS might be selling them now. Do you not understand why shipped =/= sold?