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Infamy79 on 22 January 2009
FishyJoe said:
Hmm, I'm wondering if they are going to launch the DSi sooner than I expected. These low DS numbers would make sense if they were trying to clear inventory. Perhaps it's cheaper to maintain one production line and they decided to kill the DS lite.

 

Except the DSi isn't a direct replacement for the DS Lite, they will keep selling both



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canch on 22 January 2009
Infamy79 said:
FishyJoe said:
Hmm, I'm wondering if they are going to launch the DSi sooner than I expected. These low DS numbers would make sense if they were trying to clear inventory. Perhaps it's cheaper to maintain one production line and they decided to kill the DS lite.

 

Except the DSi isn't a direct replacement for the DS Lite, they will keep selling both


Im not sure about that, I think the DSi is there to combat piracy as you can't use the R4 chip with it.

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Zlejedi on 22 January 2009

But at the same time piracy is driving force at least some of DSi sales but of course not at the same scale PSP is.



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Tbone on 22 January 2009

Pretty low numbers overall.



 

kylohk on 22 January 2009

It's actually surprising that the Wii actually did better than the same week last year despite the annoying slowdowns!



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Infamy79 on 22 January 2009
canch said:
Infamy79 said:
FishyJoe said:
Hmm, I'm wondering if they are going to launch the DSi sooner than I expected. These low DS numbers would make sense if they were trying to clear inventory. Perhaps it's cheaper to maintain one production line and they decided to kill the DS lite.

 

Except the DSi isn't a direct replacement for the DS Lite, they will keep selling both

 

Im not sure about that, I think the DSi is there to combat piracy as you can't use the R4 chip with it.

 

Well you should be sure because Nintendo have said that is the case. There are games like Guitar Hero that require the GBA slot and they continue to sell the DS Lite in Japan along side the DSi.



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Sullla on 22 January 2009

It certainly looks like Wii is somewhat supply constrained, although not nearly to the degree as January 08 (when it was literally impossible to find on in America). I'm most impressed by 360 sales, to be honest - no, the console isn't going to hit 200k each week, but it's off to a very solid start, well above last year's numbers. For the curious, the hardware totals worldwide at this time last year were:

Wii: 276k
PS3: 183k
360: 118k

Wii is going to end the week somewhere around 310k, 360 around 190k, and PS3 roughly 155k. While Wii sales are essentially flat year over year, 360 is way up, and PS3 slightly down. The big difference is in Europe, where 360 has gone through a complete reversal from last year.



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Oyvoyvoyv on 22 January 2009
canch said:
Infamy79 said:
FishyJoe said:
Hmm, I'm wondering if they are going to launch the DSi sooner than I expected. These low DS numbers would make sense if they were trying to clear inventory. Perhaps it's cheaper to maintain one production line and they decided to kill the DS lite.

 

Except the DSi isn't a direct replacement for the DS Lite, they will keep selling both

 

Im not sure about that, I think the DSi is there to combat piracy as you can't use the R4 chip with it.

That doesn't make any sense...

All new games will be playable on the DSL.

So the hackers/pirates will simply use the DSL, not the DSi. Problem solved for them...

 



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xman on 22 January 2009

I cant wait for the DSi to launch in America



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BHR-3 on 22 January 2009
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nice we got these #'s so early 360 margin on outselling the ps3 this week might be 45k about 10k less than last week its days of outselling the ps3 are numbered

also something to ponder over the ps3 wit only 52k this week i have a feeling that we'll C some sub 35k a week #'s from it pretty soon that's going to make me feel

 

I cannot tell if you are joking or not. You know that if japan comes up with 24k ps3 and 12k 360 the 360 will outsell the PS3 by about 1 percent more then last week? Yes absolute number look better when smaller but the percentage is still the same. If japan sees a drop it could be an actual increase in the percentage gap between ps3 and 360.

 

wat R u talking about ps3 24k 360 12k thats 12k diffrence the current gap is at 57k so 57-12=45 last week the gap 360 was outselling it was 57k this week it will b like i said even b4 the jp preview was in 45k that is 10k less then last week so how will the 360 outsell it by 1% more than last week   i think that jp will come up with 7k 360 20k ps3 rather than ur 12k 24k



                                                             

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