Except you missed two incredibly important words in his statement and went straight for the last line.

"fully functional".

I'd like you to come up with a single gaming feature that ANY home console offers that the DS can't.

Controllers, motion controls, downloadable content, local multiplayer, great graphics and so on. There's a lot of difference.

But a console is not only for games you see. I personally bought my PS3 for the blu-ray at first which shows it might appeal to a different market while handhelds are exclusively for gaming on the go.

that portable consaole is an excuse, if you say portables sell better why didn't any portable made it as far as nintendo portable

I'm not suprised that in every thread concerning DS LTD sales people trying hard to downplay somehow it's success stating that it appeals to bigger market (sometimes vaguely called 'different', whatever it means still the same spin) by mere the fact it's portable so PS2 keeps it's #1 status. If only portable consoles aggregate sales were bigger than home console aggregate sales on monthly\yearly\whatever basis in history of videogames then this argument might hold some water but it's not, which makes DS success even more astonishing (it breaks longtime trend of portable consoles selling sizably less than home consoles).

Because the DS is a good handheld just like the PS2 was a good console. I'm just saying you can't compare both product.

Just look at the price. That's a good enough difference.

Anyway, I know a lot of people who doesn't like handhelds (including me) simply because it's a different experience (and not a fun one). And it doesn't matter whether it's the DS or the PSP or the iPod Touch, I dislike them all. Except for Pokémon.

It'll be number 1. I suggest people get over it.

Top 6 best selling system up to now:

PS2
DS
GB
PS1
GBA
Wii

Wii will top GBA this year and DS will top PS2 possible.

I  also preffer consoles over handheld, but it is unfair to not compare them, they both had chance and all, and since ds is taking over suddenly there is that handheld will always sell better than consoles argument

But it does appeal to a bigger market. Pretty much every kid I know own a DS. And not only them but their brothers and theirs sisters. I know a lot of big families with a lot of childrens and every children of the family own their own DS. So it's like 4 DS per family while you won't see 4 consoles per family.

And I bought my DS at 99$. Now who wouldn't at that price?

omg, ds will top ps3??