If they shipped 500k in a week they´d probably sell out, again. 1m should be enough but problem is this cute little device sells to people who don´t really care when they buy this system. You´d just need another "Touch generations" title and numbers would be back at this level.

We are at a completely new situation with the DS now: If this thing sells to 35+ million people in Japan, weekly numbers would probably be as high as just 10k a week, but the software would still sell like hot cakes ---> this is completely new, everytime in the past, a system stopped selling it was because interest was slowing down. With the NDS, system sales will slow down not because of the lack of demand but because there would be no people anymore to buy one. This is crazy, nothing else...

And now let´s wait what happens to the US numbers, now where the DS sells (thanks to Pokemon) to younger gamers, too and parents start to see this system... I think US numbers will just increase this year... next step should be China and Nintendo could sell 200 Million consoles worldwide... I guess DS was just the beginning and DS 2 will sell even better, because now Nintendo KNOWS what they have to do and publishers know it, too... Imagine something like portable books on the DS 2, learning helpers for students which would at that time be liked to be seen even by teachers - cuz they´d know what a DS is - ,things like social skill trainers in the whole world, a camera, but not to whatch your opponent while gaming, but to point at famous buildings for recieving Data from your DS - this would be a point where everyone would need a DS, and it would be a point where videogames were something like books, movies, theatres, TV, music... culture. Think of such a situation, how crazy it could be... and don´t tell me this is far away, just look at Japan, it already happened.

And with markest like China or India targeted, too selling 250 million consoles wouldn´t even be a big success. there wouldn´t be too many hardware makers, cuz publishers know who could have success in a battle and the brand of a console would still be important. You could solve this problem if Sony, Microsoft and Big N would be clever and sign contracts with publishers (so they can only develope for their systems).

Back in 1985, if someone told you there would once be a console to sell 100 million you laughed at him - but it came true. Now don´t laugh at people who say selling 200 million consoles is just dreaming, it could come true sooner than you think.

Couldn´t it, Johnlucas? ;)

Damn skippy.

People gotta lose that molevision. Myopia is the wrong eyesight, insight, outlook to plot the progress of the WiiDS Phenomenon.

I said PHENOMENON. Not 'success'. PHENOMENON. This is but the dawn, son. Just the dawn.

To take off on a falsely attributed Kutaragi quote "Nintendo's aiming for the sun"

John Lucas

(P.S.: Nintendo's been preparing the China region for some time through the iQue brand. Louie smells what the WiiDS is cookin' for *damn* sure)

 said PHENOMENON. Not 'success'. PHENOMENON. This is but the dawn, son. Just the dawn.

You shouldn´t tell them, make it a surprise

I really wonder why nobody mentioned China, they are in a boom, they´ve got money now, and casual gamers in China will buy the same games as the ones in the US and Japan and Europe do. Even if the DS kind of fails in China (let´s say at the same level like the Cube did in Japan) they would sell 30 million systems there. It just needs some more time. And when China is explored there´s India...

I can't see DS sales slowing, in Japan or any other market. Nintendo has stated they're going to ramp up production to 2.5 million DSL units a month. I would say that should satisfy supply issues most places world wide until the holiday season, though whether they'll be satisfied in Japan is iffy at best. I think we definetly have not seen the DS peak yet in the US or Europe. In Japan we may have, but who the hell knows. Holiday season 2007 for the system is going to be insane pretty much everywhere as far as I can tell.

never sadly