This was just something I thought would look kinda neat. Sort like how PS3 hit 7.77 million this week and how I think either PS3 or Wii hit 6.66 million a while back.

basically, the DS and PSP combined sales are slowly approaching teh 100 million mark, at this point, it will be totally possible for the DS and PSP sales to have the same number as the percentage.

however it's also possible that the sales will be such that this spot is skipped, such that the sales actually hit 101 million be the time teh chart is updated, at which point you could have sales and % have a .1% difference and never actually match up.

So this particular prediction is far more complex than just simply plotting when a certain console will reach a certain point in sales. the object here is threefold, as not only do the sales of the DS AND the PSP need to be calculated, but the ratio between them must be calculated as well.

This prediciton is twofold:

If the DS sales ever do match up with the percentage, what month will this be in?

AND

if the DS sales ever do match up, what will the percentage be at that time?

For my predicition on this, there's only another 10 million to go before the Pecentages and Sales can match up exactly. We have one more week of 2million per week combined sales of PSP, so after Xmas, sales are going to drop down to probably around .75 million per week level. that means roughly 12 weeks, or around mid March should be the point at which teh DS+PSP sales will hit 100 million, so that's the most likely point for DS sales to equal percentage.

The second part is trickier, DS sales are normally slightly higher than 2 to 1 against the PSP, during holidays, that ratio seems to grow to 3 to 1 which is why the percentage has been increasing over the past couple weeks. I think that will slowly go back down once the holidays are over. My estimate is that DS will be between 67.8 and 68.3% if the sales ever do match teh perentage.

I would say the DS will reach his % at 68% , and the PSP at 32% ... that will be somwhere ~ at the end of Q1 next year ...

I just dont agree with combining things like "DS+PSP" the DS is it's own force, the PSP might be doing ok, but it's not in the same league even if its in the same handheld category.

 But to the topic I believe it willit will be within the 70-75% range.

Um if DS and PSP sales ever equal 100 million exactly, then yea the percentage will equal the exact same thing.

The chances of that happening? Not good. But I think with round off and all that even if we only missed it by a million it would still look about the same.

interesting. I shall ponder this later though, for now i need sleep.

You guys are missing the question entirely.

The question is...

A: When will the DS + PSP sales hit an incredible 100 million mark?

B: What will the distribution between DS and PSP be when this occurs?...

(intuitively, if the DS has 70 million of the 100 million units, it will be 70% - this seems a little fluffed to add on)

the % will be close enough I am sure it will be within 200k when it get near 100 mil. Instead of trying to find problems with you topic I will answer it : )

The DS will be at 63 mil or so after this week so the min is 63.. I am gonna say 68.8 to 69

Definitely 68.5%.

I didn't know that the Nintendo DS is a boy.

 You don’t have time to ponder such questions, as Link has just grabbed a Smash Ball.

and I agree with 68.5.%