I'm not counting outside of the current number of DS owners, since imo Japan has almost reached the saturation point. More than 20% oj the japanese already own the handheld, what more would we want?

I can't get the point of "only", 3,6% is damn high, like it have been already said.

This!! WTF do they mean by this "ONLY"???!!!!! 3.6% either way is still huge day one sales!!

Seeing the boost PSP got due to the 3000, i would think the DSi production will not be able to the meet the demands for a few weeks in Japan

Sample size ?

If you assume that the gamers polled represent about 5% of the views of the Japaneese people, and that none of the other 95% of people in Japan will buy a DSi, this would work out to (roughly) 200,000 to 250,000 DSi systems sold on day one and about 2,000,000 people who seem fairly interested in buying one in the near future. That seems fairly massive when you consider how small of an improvement the DSi is

The is completely skewed, the sample include more than 80% male and the average age was like 23, look at the DS demography and you'll see that this is NOT a group that the DS is popular with.

wow only 5 million Dsi's on day one?! FLOP!

lol ya wow thats still so many, and thats only day 1

inaccurate