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Forums - Sales - PSP sold far more than DS in Japan this week?

NYANKS on 05 March 2008
MANUELF said:
Cheebee said:
Market saturation never stopped the PS2. :p
DS outselling PS2 in Japan.

 


No not yet, almost.

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gengka on 05 March 2008

i am enjoying my psp but i also wan a ds to play dragon quest and all the square enix games and zelda phantom hourglass. damn i am converting to handheld like japanese!



EHSTEVE on 05 March 2008
Roflinator said:
It happens sometimes.

 I think it's happened most weeks so far in '08



Cheebee on 05 March 2008

Err, you think wrong. :p



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stclam on 05 March 2008

Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G is coming

Dont be surprised if PSP dominate the Japan sales chart in march and april

MH is the only reason why PSP is still alive



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akuma587 on 05 March 2008

DS is saturated. I mean seriously, some people probably have like 4 of those things.



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Stever89 on 05 March 2008
Cheebee said:
Err, you think wrong. :p

 Think wrong about what? The DS has reached saturation, even if it's still a million or so from the PS2. It's not like it's going to sell that million in a few weeks and then just drop dead. It hasn't even had a price cut! And look at this graph. It's sold twice as fast as the PS2. It has to slow down sometime. I don't see what the big deal is anymore. If the DS stopped selling today then it'd take like 3 years for the PSP to get to DS levels in Japan. The DS will probably sell better this year overall, but not every week.



Zucas on 05 March 2008

DS has hit a point of diminishing returns in Japan. Only way Nintendo can revive that is to release a new model similar to that of the DS Lite and of course PSP Slim. Nintendo knows this and is probably working on one as we speak.



4D Gamer III on 05 March 2008

Who knows, it could be anything. Perplexing question though.



The Ghost of RubangB said:
1: Stop making shooters. Please. You're not Valve or Free Radical.
2: Stop trying to force photo-realism down my throat until you can get out of the uncanny valley. Work on style and presentation instead of just pixels and bloom.
3: Try something weird and new, and hope we like it.

You'll cut costs way more than you cut revenue, and thus increase profit.
Man on 05 March 2008
 
heheh. i pressed the wrong quote button, but i was talking to the guy that said market saturation didnt affect the ps2...

According to vgchartz its really close to overtaking the ps2.

 Also, i think either famitsu or mediacreate said its passed the ps2 already. 

Either way, its stil selling 50,000 a week so it has a long way to go before it stops selling.