Quote Originally Posted by The Time Assassin
Quote Originally Posted by Endless
True, they only sold 5 millions units by last March. Also in Japan:

Units sold
June 6th-12th/Year Total
DS 32,765 / 972,202
PS2 27,741 / 987,120
PSP 21,476 / 915,416
GBASP 8,522 / 338,180
GC 2,558 / 114,961
GBA 623 / 11,594
Xbox 131 / 7,360

32k DSs sold when Sony sold only 21k PSPs? Nintendo is dying!

June 13 - 19, 2005
Nintendo DS - 31,376
PlayStation 2 - 25,526
PSP - 20,416
Game Boy Advance SP - 9,727
GameCube - 2,183
Game Boy Advance - 475
Xbox - 150

Still only outsolding the PSP by 11k units. Nintendo is agonizing now!

June 20 - 26, 2005
Nintendo DS - 32,789
PS2 - 28,515
Game Boy Advance SP - 21,904
PSP - 20,862
GameCube - 2,649
Game Boy Advance - 452
Xbox - 184

Do I need to comment? The SP outsold the PSP. Nintendo is dead!


SP and DS only had a 5 month head start on the PSP.
What does the Gameboy Advance SP have to do with this? It was released in early 2003.

The PSP has only been out a week shorter time in Japan than the DS. The DS started out outselling it by an extreme amount, then for pretty much January and February the PSP gained a slight lead. All of a sudden, Nintendo started getting all these games while the PSP wasn't getting crap, Nintendo regained the lead in March and has been running away with it for 4 months. This year they're ahead of the PSP by a few hundred thousand now, and overall it's ahead by a few million. The DS has had a successful launch and sustaining sales run in Japan, US, Europe, and Australia, while the PSP is only really competing with it in the US (launched over 3 months ago, losing steam) and Sony hasn't even gotten the PSP to Europe yet, where Nintendo broke records all over with the DS's launch.

And you didn't even address half the statements in my previous post, choosing only to say (with what basis?) that no teenager would play Kirby or NintenDogs. Umm, most teenagers now grew up on games, Kirby has been a very popular platformer franchise for 15 years, and both reviews (all 20-30+ years old usually) have been hailing that, Meteos, NintenDogs, etc... as fantastic.