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Nintendogamer on 14 May 2010
morenoingrato said:
Nintendogamer said:
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.


omg, ds will top ps3??


Type corrected.



Buying in 2015: Captain toad: treasure tracker,

mario maker

new 3ds

yoshi woolly world

zelda U

majora's mask 3d

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Fab_GS on 14 May 2010
Boutros said:
thetonestarr said:
Boutros said:
jesus kung fu magic said:
Boutros said:
Kyuubi Ricky SSJ2 said:
Boutros said:
*Portable* Console



Because: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console

Still a console. It's like separating Laptops from Desktop PC's.

I never considered handhelds and consoles the same. It's different market.

It's more like comparing a Mac with a Ipod.

Technically , they are consoles with their own screen and power source....so they are consoles just portable.

And that analogy is horrendous...a mac is a fully functional computer while the Ipod/touch is just a multimedia device.....the Ipod/touch cant do all the things a mac can do.

The DS can play games.....just like the rest of the home consoles.

Going by your logic, we should consider the Tamagotchi as a console.

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.

It has buttons (), Really?,  DSiWare or PSN, Never played a Pokemon game?, DS & PSP can produce "great" graphics.

The PSP can view photos, play movies & music and can browse the web.

Colors FTW



mai on 14 May 2010
Boutros said:
mai said:
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 monthlyyearlywhatever 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).

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?

I'm really tired of posting of this pic =)

Mobile phones appeals to bigger market than consoles, hence >1 billion unit sales yearly vs how many?.. like 40 million of DS and PSP combined last year. That's what I call sizeble difference. Portable vs home consoles? Not so much. I'm just following facts, no assumptions.



Boutros on 14 May 2010
Fab_GS said:
Boutros said:
thetonestarr said:
Boutros said:
jesus kung fu magic said:
Boutros said:
Kyuubi Ricky SSJ2 said:
Boutros said:
*Portable* Console



Because: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console

Still a console. It's like separating Laptops from Desktop PC's.

I never considered handhelds and consoles the same. It's different market.

It's more like comparing a Mac with a Ipod.

Technically , they are consoles with their own screen and power source....so they are consoles just portable.

And that analogy is horrendous...a mac is a fully functional computer while the Ipod/touch is just a multimedia device.....the Ipod/touch cant do all the things a mac can do.

The DS can play games.....just like the rest of the home consoles.

Going by your logic, we should consider the Tamagotchi as a console.

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.

It has buttons (), Really?,  DSiWare or PSN, Never played a Pokemon game?, DS & PSP can produce "great" graphics.

The PSP can view photos, play movies & music and can browse the web.

Colors FTW

But just so you know before, I was only talking about the DS since that's what he asked.

 

Yeah but I love analog sticks (mostly for shooters)

Ok motion controls are not that important but still, it can't do it!

I hate DLC anyway :P

I was talking about Splitscreen (I like to cheat by looking at their screens)

Yeah I was talking about the DS.

 

It's so easier with colors.



Boutros on 14 May 2010

Oups I forgot black!

 

Well not really...I mean not enough for me. I prefer 2D graphics than N64 graphics.



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Boutros on 14 May 2010
mai said:
Boutros said:
mai said:
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 monthlyyearlywhatever 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).

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?

I'm really tired of posting of this pic =)

Mobile phones appeals to bigger market than consoles, hence >1 billion unit sales yearly vs how many?.. like 40 million of DS and PSP combined last year. That's what I call sizeble difference. Portable vs home consoles? Not so much. I just following facts, no assumptions.

But just look at these two articles. That's what I mean by different market:

http://www.qj.net/qjnet/wii/average-age-of-wii-owners-is-29-says-fils-aime.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/technology/31nintendo.html?_r=1&ex=1199854800&en=7d45a4b7f9f7b29b&ei=5058&partner=IWON

 

It says what's the average age of Wii owners and DS owners. Huge difference. Different market.



Fab_GS on 14 May 2010
Boutros said:
Fab_GS said:
Boutros said:
thetonestarr said:
Boutros said:
jesus kung fu magic said:
Boutros said:
Kyuubi Ricky SSJ2 said:
Boutros said:
*Portable* Console



Because: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console

Still a console. It's like separating Laptops from Desktop PC's.

I never considered handhelds and consoles the same. It's different market.

It's more like comparing a Mac with a Ipod.

Technically , they are consoles with their own screen and power source....so they are consoles just portable.

And that analogy is horrendous...a mac is a fully functional computer while the Ipod/touch is just a multimedia device.....the Ipod/touch cant do all the things a mac can do.

The DS can play games.....just like the rest of the home consoles.

Going by your logic, we should consider the Tamagotchi as a console.

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.

It has buttons (), Really?,  DSiWare or PSN, Never played a Pokemon game?, DS & PSP can produce "great" graphics.

The PSP can view photos, play movies & music and can browse the web.

Colors FTW

Yeah I was talking about the DS.

 

It's so easier with colors.

Well you said handhelds

And change your avatar.



Boutros on 14 May 2010
Fab_GS said:

Well you said handhelds

And change your avatar.

No way! Ok maybe soon.



milkyjoe on 14 May 2010

It doesn't really matter who bought the consoles. I'm sure Nintendo would care less if they sold 200million DS consoles to 8ft tall talking goldfish from Jupiter... they would still have sold 200million DS consoles in my obviously ridiculous hypothetical scenario...



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mai on 14 May 2010

Boutros said:

But just look at these two articles. That's what I mean by different market:

http://www.qj.net/qjnet/wii/average-age-of-wii-owners-is-29-says-fils-aime.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/technology/31nintendo.html?_r=1&ex=1199854800&en=7d45a4b7f9f7b29b&ei=5058&partner=IWON

 

It says what's the average age of Wii owners and DS owners. Huge difference. Different market.

Those articles are really out of date. "80 percent of DS owners are 8 to 16 years of age" - this's just plain wrong according to Nintendo themselves, only 30-35% of DS users are belong to this age group and this data is US only, Japan DS audience is considerably more diverse (hence penetration rate) and on top of that last survey resulsts were published a year ago, so I won't be surprised if DS US userbase now is closer to japanese. Does it mean that DS now appeals to older audience or it's just penetration rate is going up?

Really, "DS is for kids" - that's just old and out of date =)