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MaxwellGT2000 on 15 April 2008
mrstickball said:
The DS has alot of room to grow in the West, but I think it's saturated the Japanese market, and crested it's growth. The DS is down 50% YOY vs. last year...Not a good sign if you think the DS is going to keep up at a breakneck pace.


 Which a new model could come out and boost sales again in Japan, plus the huge amount of RPGs in the DS's future.



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mrstickball on 15 April 2008
FishyJoe said:

Unless a new sexy slim model is released.... and a game called Dragon Quest IX.


I do believe there is such a thing as the "DS Lite". Not sure if you've heard of it or not. I think it's their re-model ;)

 I know DQIX is certainly going to re-ignite sales in Japan, but when your trending down that strongly, DQIX might have as much impact as FFXII did on the PS2: It's going to move lots of software, a good bit of hardware, but in the grand scheme of things, really not effect the market as much as you'd want it to.

That's not saying that I think the DS will stop selling, or anything. I think Nintendo can get another 10-15m DS sales out of Japan alone. But I don't think we're going to see the DS break the 2007 record for hardware.

Anyone find it mega-odd that the PSP is actually the top-selling Japanese system of choice in 2008? Never woulda saw that coming.

And for the whole RPG's will make the DS sell better: What about Pokemon? Final Fantasies? Tales of? If the DS base was going to increase due to RPGs, the fact is, they're already there. The only one that can/will help the DS would be DQIX (which I could easily see DQIX move 300,000-500,000 hardware units). But aside from that, they'll have very little effect on the DS as a whole. The DS is already very genre-saturated, and I just don't see alot of "hope" for it having a huge revival in Japan, unless there is some sort of pent-up demand for the device at the $79 or $99 equivilent price level.

Again, that's not to say the DS H/W sales won't be spectacular: but I don't see it selling over 6m units/yr in Japan. Nintendo needs to focus more on the west. Why is it that the Wii and GBA can do gangbusters in the US, but the DS is very weak?



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FishyJoe on 15 April 2008

I think the DS could be redesigned to be even smaller and attractive, think MacBook Air. And there would be no reason to stop selling the current DS lite. The redesign could be sold in addition to the DS Lite as a deluxe version. Thinner, sleeker with a metal case.

What else would their Nintendo hardware design team be working on? It's still too early to be devoting all your resources for the DS or Wii successor.



MANUELF on 16 April 2008

Congratulations for both, the DS for be the best fast selling console ever and the DS for be the best second place.



hunter_alien on 16 April 2008
FishyJoe said:
I think the DS could be redesigned to be even smaller and attractive, think MacBook Air. And there would be no reason to stop selling the current DS lite. The redesign could be sold in addition to the DS Lite as a deluxe version. Thinner, sleeker with a metal case.

What else would their Nintendo hardware design team be working on? It's still too early to be devoting all your resources for the DS or Wii successor.

 Lets hope taht they wont make a DS Micro ... I guess Nintendo have learned their lesson with it :P



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