Nintendo's DS Lite continues to dominate the attention of Japanese consumers, notching up ever increasing weekly sales through the past four pre-Christmas weeks - even as Sony's PSP pushed ahead of Nintendo's other star, the Wii. According to figures from Japanese market watcher Media Create, some 222,132 DS Lites were …

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Friday 21st December 2007 13:36 GMT Anonymous Coward

I remember

A blog where the microsoft guy goes into the games shop and asks for a 360 and the teller threw him out of the shop lol.

Sadly I can't remember where it was but it was xbox360 launch time.

Anyway it's what we'd expect, you're not gonna spend £400 (90,000 yen) on someone elses present! Well maybe a first car, PC for uni, you know, serious life purchases parents get there kids as coming of age gifts. Besides all the seasons anime is coming out on DVD, new figures, new arcade games, there are important things to buy for many of the people who'd get the ps3. lol.

Best I ever got was a bike and that was £120 couldn't ride the thing though.

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Friday 21st December 2007 14:22 GMT TeeCee

DS sales.

I have three kids*. The DS sales market works like this:

1) kid gets DS.

2) kid plays DS.

3) kid breaks DS.

4) harrassed parent buys new DS**.

Repeat 1-4 ad. infinitum. No wonder the things sell so well, every sale adds to the exponential curve of resales. I wonder how much of the world's landfill is DSs these days?

* Run three cycles of 1-4, out-of-sync, in parallel.

** 'cos after you've paid the postage and the fix cost and put up with a couple of months of junior histrionics while Nintendo get off their fat arses and fix it once, you never do it again.

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Friday 21st December 2007 16:37 GMT Albert

@DS sales.

Excellent post.

It does explain a lot. The big consoles are put somewhere safe while the DS gets knocked about by kids.

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Friday 21st December 2007 20:32 GMT Sean

result of product design?

it was interesting, that's for sure. nobody ever mentions how much failure rates for the ds affect sales but i've heard my fair share of stories so i'd bet it's reasonably high. of course, the low entry price makes it easier both to get in and to replace but... well, i think design also greatly affects product success. ps2 was aesthetically pleasing and dominated the global market (compare to: fugly black and green xbox and purple barney murse gamecube). ds looks remarkably like a miniaturized version of the black Asus Eee PC which has (evidently) been selling out as well. hmmmmm....

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