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DavidValbu on 15 April 2010

Amazing DS marketshare in Japan! It's near 50% considering all platforms. Nintendo is really printing money with this handheld.

 

 

 

CONGRATS TO ALL MODELS!

I wonder how many units 3DS will achieve in the land of the rising sun.

 

 

 

 



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Nintendogamer on 15 April 2010

DS will sell over 150M in the future and at least 33M in Japan, 3DS shall sell over 3M in the first 2 weeks of software is really appealing.



Buying in 2015: Captain toad: treasure tracker,

mario maker

new 3ds

yoshi woolly world

zelda U

majora's mask 3d

andremop on 15 April 2010

The true king of videogaming!

BTW, the DS phat is ugly as hell lol! Looks like an 80's device!



gurglesletch on 15 April 2010

That things a beast even though it is similar in price to the wii.




Get your Portable ID!

kingofwale on 15 April 2010

well, it is out the longest, it has the lowest price point and in a market that has been dominated (if not monopolized) by Nintendo for god-knows how long

is this really a shocker to anybody?



Soriku (Feb 10/08): In 5 years the PS3/360 will be dead.

KH3 bet: "If KH3 comes to Wii exclusive, I will take a 1 month of sig/avatar by otheres open a thread apologize and praise you guys' brilliance." http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=50&id=18379
Original cast: Badonkadonkhr, sc94597 allaboutthegames885, kingofwale, Soriku, ctk495, skeezer, RDBRaptor, Mirson,

Episode 1: OOPSY!
selnor: Too Human I even expect 3-4 mill entire life and 500,000 first day. GoW2 ( expect 7 - 9 million entire life and over 2 mill first day), Fable 2 (expect 5-6 million entire life and 1.5 mill fist day) BK3 (expect 4 - 5 mill sales entire life and 1 mill first day).. Tales/IU/TLR should get to 2 or 3 million! post id: 868878
Episode 2:
Letsdance: FFXIII (PS3+360) first week in NA = 286K
According to pre-order rate in week 13 (post id: 2902544)
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jbrist on 15 April 2010
andremop said:
The true king of videogaming!

BTW, the DS phat is ugly as hell lol! Looks like an 80's device!

EXCUSE ME?! I'll have you know, I still have the fat DS, and prefer it to the others, it's TONS more comfortable to hold, and it's retro as hell, really cool... I just don't like the stylus, it's too thin, but meh, overall, it's the best of the DS models :D



Zucas on 15 April 2010
kingofwale said:
well, it is out the longest, it has the lowest price point and in a market that has been dominated (if not monopolized) by Nintendo for god-knows how long

is this really a shocker to anybody?

Well considering GBA only sold a little more than half of what the DS has sold in Japan, has only 4 million sellers in Japan, and very few 3rd party sucesses I'd say that last part is hardly true.  Especially considering console wise for N64 and GC had very little impact at all, it hasn't been Nintendo dominated at all.  Not even in the slightest.  Not sense the days of the SNES.  Only dominating franchise Nintendo has even had there in the time between that and DS has been Pokemon.  Nintendo's domination of the Japanese market (like the other markets) is something that has happened fairly recent. In better perspective, not really until 2006 and 2007 did you see this domination, although DS was doing well in 2005 in Japan. 

Also PSP didn't release that long after DS in Japan.  They've been on the market for about the same time.  So yes it is not only shocking it's simply amazing how quickly the market turned around.  Shows how strong of a release the DS was in the Japanese market. 

 



kingofwale on 15 April 2010
Zucas said:
kingofwale said:
well, it is out the longest, it has the lowest price point and in a market that has been dominated (if not monopolized) by Nintendo for god-knows how long

is this really a shocker to anybody?

Well considering GBA only sold a little more than half of what the DS has sold in Japan, has only 4 million sellers in Japan, and very few 3rd party sucesses I'd say that last part is hardly true.  Especially considering console wise for N64 and GC had very little impact at all, it hasn't been Nintendo dominated at all.  Not even in the slightest.  Not sense the days of the SNES.  Only dominating franchise Nintendo has even had there in the time between that and DS has been Pokemon.  Nintendo's domination of the Japanese market (like the other markets) is something that has happened fairly recent. In better perspective, not really until 2006 and 2007 did you see this domination, although DS was doing well in 2005 in Japan. 

Also PSP didn't release that long after DS in Japan.  They've been on the market for about the same time.  So yes it is not only shocking it's simply amazing how quickly the market turned around.  Shows how strong of a release the DS was in the Japanese market. 

 

clearly, when I said "dominated if not monopolized"... I meant in the handheld market.

 

nobody in their right mind would consider N64 and GC for any of those terms. ;)

 

 



Soriku (Feb 10/08): In 5 years the PS3/360 will be dead.

KH3 bet: "If KH3 comes to Wii exclusive, I will take a 1 month of sig/avatar by otheres open a thread apologize and praise you guys' brilliance." http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=50&id=18379
Original cast: Badonkadonkhr, sc94597 allaboutthegames885, kingofwale, Soriku, ctk495, skeezer, RDBRaptor, Mirson,

Episode 1: OOPSY!
selnor: Too Human I even expect 3-4 mill entire life and 500,000 first day. GoW2 ( expect 7 - 9 million entire life and over 2 mill first day), Fable 2 (expect 5-6 million entire life and 1.5 mill fist day) BK3 (expect 4 - 5 mill sales entire life and 1 mill first day).. Tales/IU/TLR should get to 2 or 3 million! post id: 868878
Episode 2:
Letsdance: FFXIII (PS3+360) first week in NA = 286K
According to pre-order rate in week 13 (post id: 2902544)
Zucas on 15 April 2010
kingofwale said:
Zucas said:
kingofwale said:
well, it is out the longest, it has the lowest price point and in a market that has been dominated (if not monopolized) by Nintendo for god-knows how long

is this really a shocker to anybody?

Well considering GBA only sold a little more than half of what the DS has sold in Japan, has only 4 million sellers in Japan, and very few 3rd party sucesses I'd say that last part is hardly true.  Especially considering console wise for N64 and GC had very little impact at all, it hasn't been Nintendo dominated at all.  Not even in the slightest.  Not sense the days of the SNES.  Only dominating franchise Nintendo has even had there in the time between that and DS has been Pokemon.  Nintendo's domination of the Japanese market (like the other markets) is something that has happened fairly recent. In better perspective, not really until 2006 and 2007 did you see this domination, although DS was doing well in 2005 in Japan. 

Also PSP didn't release that long after DS in Japan.  They've been on the market for about the same time.  So yes it is not only shocking it's simply amazing how quickly the market turned around.  Shows how strong of a release the DS was in the Japanese market. 

 

clearly, when I said "dominated if not monopolized"... I meant in the handheld market.

 

nobody in their right mind would consider N64 and GC for any of those terms. ;)

 

 

Nobody in their right mind would say nintendo "dominated if not monoplizied" in the handheld market before this gen because the only response would be a "Duh".  It's not hard when you have virtually no competitor. 

So no, I have no idea what you were saying now haha.  No seriously.  I guess if you were trying to say that dominance carried over (which at first it didn't) then I guess that would make it not shocking, although DS didn't just automatically start off strong as it was coming off a weaker performing GBA.



rafichamp on 15 April 2010

Wounder if 3DS will continue the trend