Well when I went it was already Saturday evening(around 7pm or 7:30ish), so the store wasn't as full as it would be in the afternoon, but I did see a few people buying the system. Just about everybody was stopping to look at the various DSi LL "non-working samples". They also had a DSi and DSi LL set up next to each with NSMB to show off the size difference. I also saw some people buying them at the other electronics store that I checked out.

My impressions: I must say that I was quite skeptical about the DSi LL when I first saw the pics on Kotaku, but after using it quite a bit last night(playing a few hours of DQIX) it really is great. It's so much easier to hold compared to my DS Lite, especially when I'm lying down in bed. My hands didn't get tired like they normally would after playing a bit on the Lite. I thought the weight might be something of a problem, but I didn't really notice it too much. It's supposed to be around the same weight as my PSP-1000, but the PSP seems so much heavier. Maybe it's because the weight is spread around more when opened. The PSP feels like a rock in comparison.

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so PSP Go sold a little over 1/3 of its first shipment after 3 weeks. It's doing really well.

And DSi LL is likely to sell out the first shipment in 3 weeks or so. It's certainly not doing well since there will be shortage due to sold out shipment.

LOL I have 9 in Maths :D

For some strange reason I thought the totale sales for PSP Go! were at 49k...anyway 34.4% in 3 weeks is not good, especially since the console didn't double it's first two days sales. At this rate probably it will need more than a month to sell the first shipment, even with the holidays approaching.

34.4% ~ 1/3 so he was very accurate.

The very small difference between 34.4% and 33.3% is more than small enough to give him a break. Seriously.

you know, i'd give him a break if he actually said what you guys are saying he said... but he said it didn't even sell a third yet... meaning it didnt even reach 33% yet...

Thanks but anyway there isn't that big of a difference between 50k and 51.6k, especially since there is a percentage of error of many points (up to 10% I think)...so we can say that PSP Go! sold about 1/3 of his first shipment in 3 weeks while the DSi LL has the possibility to outsell his first shipment, as big as the Go! one, in the same time frame.

You don't think Sony took the holidays into consideration when shipping their product? I'm shocked Nintendo didnt ship more because of them. Go's sales will be around 6k again then start to raise after that. I say at least 80k in Dec.

Anyway, I've said it when the Go launch... and again it fits here. The PSP =/= DS. Sony =/= Nintendo in handhelds. I don't know why you guys are so obsessed with holding Sony to the same standards as Nintendo in the handheld market. He should hold them to Sega standards which got less than 5% of the market. Nintendo has had a hanheld monopoly for 20 years. the PSP isnt comparable to the DS and the PSP is very successful.

But in this case the poor sales are because of an high price and lack of UMDs.

While you can change your DSL with a DSi or DSi LL (and Japan people love to upgrade every time) with the Go! model you have to loose all your games and pay for them when they're on PSN.

And for the Nintendo standards, the PSP 3000 fought for 50% of the year marketshare in 2008, and every launch of a new model was as big as DS new models' launches (or a bit low but not very much)...so we're not having mistake there.

And even with those 80-90k in December still the first shipment would not be sold out. Even if I'm not sure it will be able to do that, IMHO the sales will be around 5-12k without a price cut for the model.