Their are to possinbilities, either Sony is going to admit defeat in this round and give PSP just the support to be viable or they will do the right thing and give it a rejuvination at the end of this summer. If they decide to just let the PSP ride it out and not due much more with it, I see the DS selling very good untill about early 2009. However if Sony comes out at E3 with a support in the PSP the DS may see a little biot of a slide. If Sony Brings the PSP spoke of shortly ago with 8GB flash memory, trimmer design, and a lower price point around 179.99 US for the new PSP it will see very good august 07 through jan 08. That redisgn along with great software support from Sony would be enougf to gain back a few sales on the DS. Software wise they need to start doing games over PSN for only PSP, they need to allow devs to tie in PSN with PSPtitles and give people more PORTABLE games hints psP. If Sony does what they are capable of doing with the PSP, DS will slow down. DS will still win this round regardless.

Prediction: DS will move across the 60 million mark by the end of this year. Prediction: DS will move 30 million systems in one 12 month period (possibly April 07-March 08) Prediction: DS will eventually become the best selling system of all time. Prediction: DS generates an astounding 20 pieces of 5-million selling software.

the psp has no chance. by the time sony gets all the peripherals ready for multimedia some apple product would have overwhelmed the market. the DS--my wife and i have 1 each. by now brain age is the only game that i play on it... and i won't care for any other games, not even animal crossing or nintendogs or, when spore comes out. i hope nintendo or some 3rd party comes out with more educational "games", coz that's all i care about on the DS. i imagine for many DS buyers that's the same case. like in japan, you have like "kanji training", "learning english" titles. maybe they can make "learning spanish" or like "SAT training" in the US. even though i'm not in college anymore i'd still try out "SAT training"... i mean, it's almost a perfect fit, i find it surprising nobody's doing it yet. think MGS can help PSP close the gap on DS? dream on. a friend of mine patented an idea he had for classroom learning on the DS. he'll be writing some software soon, hopefully he'll have enough eventually to secure some funding to hire a couple of programmers. the possibilities are endless. the DS is only gonna start selling more, not less.

I've long thought Nintendo should release a Spanish Trainer for NA too... I'm curious to see what happens when they release Brain Age 2 in the West... The Brain Age 1 sales in NA and Europe have slowly climbed to the point where now they're downright fabulous... And Brain Age 2, with a lot more content, a more notable launch, etc., could outperform #1 just like it has in Japan... And I can't get over how many 5-million+ selling games DS is creating... Already: Nintendogs NSMB Brain Training Animal Crossing Mario Kart By the end of this year: PKMN Diamond PKMN Pearl Brain Training 2 Plus strong possibilities in: SM64:DS Dragon Quest 9 PKMN 4th generation game #3

As far as total worldwide sales I'm pretty sure the DS will sell better than any next gen console. Don't expect much momentum lost until Nintendo's next handheld comes out, and even then the DS will continue to sell well like the GBA did after the DS came out. I don't see any less than 80 million sold when all is said and done, and as high as 120 million is not impossible, though that high end would probably assume Nintendo wouldn't get their next handheld out until 2011 or later. My guess is probably DS 2 will come out 2009 or 2010.

The DS is a gimmick, it'll die off in a couple of months. ;>

IF software quality had anything to do here ,it would already lost momentum some months ago .Lunar Kinghts apart ,nearly anything remarkable (and a lot of crap ) is being released for the machine .In Japan it has had Prof Layton and a SUper Nes remake .Still it sells superbly .