BLIMEY!!!!
I find these figures astonishing, especially the game sales...
wow.... wonder what the US sales figures are looking like by now? Well this is very good news as it will get the japanese game developers to take sharp notice and much more interest in producing games for the DS... good news as many of us originally thought the DS would be lacking 3rd party games as most Nintendo systems have since SNES.
Again... wish they'd post the US sales figures because that would give us a good indication of how likely it is that the sure-to-be-soon flood of new games in Japan will be ported over for US release, and UK release as well.
I'm still baffled... a year ago it seemed so OBVIOUS to anyone who had seen both systems, that the PSP just 'HAD' to win. It wasn't anything against Nintendo (at least not in my case), it's just that, to most people (read: the unbiased, non Nintendo fanboys) the PSP just looked 'better'. I'd compare DS vs. PSP to Xbox vs PS2 (to which there are many similiarities) but there's one big difference, unlike Xbox, PSP does still have the immense amount of 3rd party support to keep it well supplied with a large variety of games,... even if those games are slow in coming. IMO this was the one thing that kept the more powerful Xbox from pulling ahead. But then again, games don't seem to be coming any more rapidly for the DS. So what really is drawing people more to the DS????
My oppinion is still that Nintendo did 'get it right' when they decided that people want to go back to playing simpler games, games that don't require two control sticks and 4-8 buttons. Especially people out there like my wife who can't play Street Fighter or Halo... the DS is fun because every game is just so easy to pick up and play.
I've said it before... I think this same strategy will be the same thing that makes the Revolution a hit, since Nintendo seem to be going the same direction with that.
Well... damn... someone post some US sales figures!!