9th March 2005, 8:01 PM
The child market is not the largest market anymore, not by a long shot. It's the 15-30 crowd that brings in all of the dough, which is why Sony has been dominant over the past several years.
The DS has done well with no competition but Nintendo's old GBA system, so the pre-PSP numbers mean very little. It's been selling worse than the PSP now almost every single week since that system's Japanese launch, and I expect no different with the U.S. and European markets. DS software sales have dropped considerably in Japan and the U.S., and with Sony's far superior lineup of games you'd have to be a biased Nintendo fanboy to think that the DS is going to come out on top this year. Nintendo does not have time to experiment with the DS, they have to deliver NOW. And unless they announce some really awesome-looking games at E3 and release them soon, they are going to fall behind the PSP.
You and others here have been mocking the PSP since it was first announced, saying that it would be yet another failed challenger to the Gameboy. Then the DS was announced and you admitted "okay, so maybe Nintendo needs more than the GBA to combat the PSP", and now that the PSP is selling better than the DS in Japan you are still in denial. The only fanboys here are you and several others here, ABF. Not me. I love Nintendo games more than you ever will, but I do not let that blind my judgement. I have no biases one way or another.
Sucks to be wrong, don't it?
The DS has done well with no competition but Nintendo's old GBA system, so the pre-PSP numbers mean very little. It's been selling worse than the PSP now almost every single week since that system's Japanese launch, and I expect no different with the U.S. and European markets. DS software sales have dropped considerably in Japan and the U.S., and with Sony's far superior lineup of games you'd have to be a biased Nintendo fanboy to think that the DS is going to come out on top this year. Nintendo does not have time to experiment with the DS, they have to deliver NOW. And unless they announce some really awesome-looking games at E3 and release them soon, they are going to fall behind the PSP.
You and others here have been mocking the PSP since it was first announced, saying that it would be yet another failed challenger to the Gameboy. Then the DS was announced and you admitted "okay, so maybe Nintendo needs more than the GBA to combat the PSP", and now that the PSP is selling better than the DS in Japan you are still in denial. The only fanboys here are you and several others here, ABF. Not me. I love Nintendo games more than you ever will, but I do not let that blind my judgement. I have no biases one way or another.
Sucks to be wrong, don't it?