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"DS - Abandon ship!"

Latest figures from Japan show the DS sales slowing to a crawl, while PSP keeps on pushing ahead. Infact, although DS was launched in Japan before PSP, the hard fact is that now PSP has overtaken the Nintendo DS.

Units sold
249,000 DS
267,000 PSP

Nintendo need to do some thing fast if they want to stay in the game. In Japan, Nintendo should be able to crush Sony, but it appears they can't, even remembering DS was launched before PSP there.

If the trend is repeated world wide, and Sony PSP continue's to increase it's lead, where will that leave DS? Being pushed into 2nd place world wide is a real possibility now, which would in turn have an effect on developers who want to design for the most used system. Add to that the low number of Nintendo GameCube's, an we have to ask, what is the future for Nintendo?

**SALES FIGURES UPDATE**

This week: Morphy Richards sell more toasters than Tefal and Hotpoint sell more washing machines than Zanussi!!!11

omgomgomgomg.

*throws away freshly brought Zannussi washing machine*

Gotta give it up now!

Hotpoint are where it's at man. Zanussi are finished.

My Zanussi goes 0-60 spins in less than 20 seconds, beat that Hotpoint n00b!

Yea, but the Hotpoint has a bigger capacity and looks nicer (but the energy efficiency sucks big time).

I'll just take my Whirlpool elsewhere then. Don't want you FANBOYS sabotaging it.

Facts are facts I guess but I think the DS has been selling pretty respectably.

Truth is that although they're both handhelds, it's perfectly possible that they'll co-exist very much like the PS2 or Xbox.

If anything the PSP sales are a sigh of relief rather than an apparent kicking in the face of the DS.

Plus it's been out for a lot less time. As WS said if it wans't selling well, then that'd be very strange

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My Braun pressure cooker will own you all.

gamesfreak wrote:
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They are Japanese sales figures for 2005 you quoted aren't they? NOT Overall sales figures?

The DS is still ahead.

Look at the Latest Japanese charts as well.... if Sony are losing money for every PSP sold and it seems they aren't getting enough money through the thing that is most important, the PSP games! It is worrying for them...





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