DS blows PSP out of the water in Japan [Finally]

[Great Rumbler]

It will only be temporary, that's the problem. Nintendo can spike their way to the top of the charts from time to time, but they lack the consistency to stay there.

it's already obvious that they're already rapidly giving ground and before long, Miyamoto and Iwara will be telling us that they aren't trying to compete with the PSP for some obscure reason. It's early, but the handwriting's on the wall, and it's following the same pattern Nintendo's console domain traveled.

The DS is screwed, Nintendo should have released the GBA 2 first damn it...

The sales trend we're seeing for the DS now, and not the pre-Christmas rush (which is when a large majority of the DS's total sales were made) is what we can come to expect if Nintendo continues to simply not care how well their machines sell, and that's an attitude they've shown for years now. It makes me wonder why they even bother sometimes.

I think its unfortunately going to get worst for the handheld system now that the monopoly is broken. 3rd parties are still pretty afraid of competing with Nintendo on their own platform.

That lead will not be sustained. You and I both know it. As I said, my store's gone two months without selling a single DS. Maybe my store is an anomaly, certainly in that particular extreme, but consider this: Even our ancient, tiny PSX software selection draws more sales, numerically and profit-wise, than DS games do.

The DS has a lead now, yes. But it won't be more than maybe two months before that lead evaporates. If even that long. Sony actually seems to have an interest in making money from their handheld machine. Nintendo seems to be continuing their devil-may-care attitude that relegated the N64 and GameCube to second-class status. I know it won't be long before we're told something to this effect:

"Sony's PSP is a do-it-all machine, a jack of all trades. It does not make games the main priority. The DS only plays games, it is a real videogame machine whereas the PSP is not, and therefore, we are not directly competing with Sony."

Just you wait.

Spikes, though. DS won't sustain those numbers like the PSP will. It doesn't matter that the DS has a lead now.

That being said, Nintendo's strategy seems to be one of staking its bets more on luck rather than making the sure kill - which for a company that claims to follow the Art of War, does not seem to be very adherent, at least from what we can observe.

The PSP has been out an entire week in the U.S. and it already has three times the number of good games as the DS, which has been out since NOVEMBER.

So yeah, it's tough to not be a pessimist about the system's future.

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