PSP outsells DS in Japan

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Yeah well, the PSP is likely to grab market share from the Nintendo because up until now, Nintendo has been a virtual monopoly. Its curious to see how much of a new market Sony will create, BUT, it is HIGHLY likely that Sony will steal from Nintendo's market. The reason I'm pessimistic is that its almost like the DS wasn't truly ready to launch until the end of 2005. Unfortunately, I'm also curious if this is just Nintendo's regular style as seen with the N64 and GC, or is it because Nintendo does not have the capacity to mobilize enough resources to squash the PSP dead on arrival.

Whatever it is, this 3 Pillars thing... Nintendo should have spend its resources on a GBA successor that would have rivaled the PSP in all aspects in a more conventional war. The DS is still an experiment, and its even worst when you can't even get your act together to run the experiment.

True, far from failure, but not in the long run. Its not going to be Nintendo's ace or anything thats going to help it maintain handheld market monopoly. If its reminiscent of anything, its reminiscent of Sony and the PSX beating Nintendo in the console market and sending them to the background. Its going to be a bad long year for the DS before Nintendo even gets out the heavy hitting killer apps for the DS. By that time, Nintendo might have missed the critical fanbase building period by loosing everyone's confidence in the machine as well as all the investors and developers jumping ship for the same reason.