You thought that people wanted the truth??? Who cares if someone didn't write something completely factual, he tried, that's all that matters.

The DS is still selling and will so for years. Nintendo can keep dropping the price over time and it will keep selling. It's not over yet.

People still comparing PS2 and DS sales? Oh boy, shall we compare best selling cars with best selling bikes then too?

But it affects something much more important. Bias in our industry.

No, support declined and 3DS took off. Also, you can play DS games on a 3DS. The 3DS covers your DS needs. So you do the math.

You can't say the same for PSP. That console died because people lost interest and not many have even moved on to the Vita.

For the record I agree that it's not a valid comparison simply because the potential for handheld sales is so much higher compared to home consoles.

I guess it makes the PS2's performance even more impressive when viewed in that light.

I guess it's up to us all to be more vigilant then.

I guess that report along with the fact that I know that it's no longer being sold in Australia and Japan has led me to believe that. In any case even if I was wrong in that assertion it appears that the 3ds has effectively replaced the DS sales in most of the world and hence the PS2 lead appears to be insurmountable at this stage.

This isn't really the case.  DS sales had started to collapse prior to the release of the 3DS.  Even so, the 3DS is not doing what the DS was selling prior to the launch.  2012 saw 3DS+DS sales drop 4.3 million despite an extra few months on the market for the 3DS.  It has seen further declines in the first four months of this year.

Get your facts right before you post.

DS production hasn't yet stopped, Nintendo have merely stopped forecasting sales for the device. If you judge production of a device by that yardstick, then bad news--Sony have now stopped forecasting PS2 sales, and have only forecast expected PS3 sales for the coming year. Obviously the PS2 has stopped being produced, no?

OR, think a little more clearly, and realise that both systems are now in the same place. Sales are low enough, and other systems are more of a priority at both firms, that PS2 and DS no longer need to be forecast. The information is no longer particularly relevant to investors, shareholders and analysts.

It should also come as no surprise to anyone that PS2 remains the top selling system of all time. Sony are a huge consumer electronics firm that sell in a far wider variety of markets than Nintendo do, which means Sony have a more widespread, superior distribution network through which they sold PS2 after sales in major videogaming markets had become a non-entity. The fact DS came so close to PS2 without that kind of distribution apparatus is immensely impressive. DS never had as large an audience to appeal to as PS2, because it was never sold to as many markets.

More importantly, both DS and PS2 were phenomenal systems with diverse, impressive catalogues of software. Why we can't celebrate that, instead of enduring another tribalistic, fanboy-centric circle jerk thread about PS2 versus DS? Or are the numbers more important than the experiences each system provided? Such a shame that fans of both sides of this argument haven't bothered to celebrate that, but instead opted for these kinds of silly little threads.