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Nintendo DS fastest selling system of all time in Japan, sold 4 million in U.S.
Javier:
I cant wait to get the Revolution ;D
herpes:
its a videogame, its not that serious
Shallow:
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--- Quote from: Rastaman Vibration on January 04, 2006, 11:15:45 AM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on January 04, 2006, 10:48:07 AM ---I said it would fail next to the other gameboys and be ingored by Ninentdo in a few years and I stand by that.
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They've hardly abandoned them, they are still releasing yet smaller versions of the Gameboy colour, and you can't expect them to keep making games for the old machines once they bring out a new version.
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I know they haven't abandoned them. The GameBoy Advance was a huge success, and is still the top handheld in the world right now. I just can't see the amount of people that bought the GBA or SP to buy a DS, unless the DS were to drop in price and focus mainly on single screen games with the bottom screen serving as a menu and they release some killer games that way. I think the DS came out too soon after the SP and didn't give the full GB public enough time to think they needed a new machine.
I don't know how well the PSP will do in the long run or if Microsoft will release something. To be honest, I hate handhelds. The only games I ever liked on them were Tetris and Columns. Every other I game I would play on the Super Gameboy or emulator. I don't know how anyone can stand playing a 3D game on a 2 to 3 inch screen.
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You know, it's alright to be wrong once in a while. Why don't you just admit you were wrong?
Your backtracking is bullshit and ineffective, they didn't release the DS as a successor to the Gameboy Advance SP... they still create games for the SP and still sell not only the SP, but two other gameboy versions (Advance, and Micro). Amazingly, with a concurrent handheld system made by their own company, Nintendo has still been able to sell 10 million DS's.
You said it would fail, and you were wrong. Now you're saying they released it too close to the launch of the SP so weren't able to capture the full SP market... they released it concurrently with the SP and aren't trying to sell it to SP customers. It's two different systems with two libraries of games at the same time, and they're both selling like wildfire. Many of the DS games are simply superior to anything on the PSP. Nintendo has done a great job of cranking up the quality of their games this past year, and likewise have sold a ton of the systems.
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The Saturn sold 10 million. THe Deamcast sold nearly 20. I cosider both failures, and I'm a Sega loyalist who owns both of them. I don't conmsider anything a success until it breaks 30 or 40 million. The NES, the Genesis (if you count the add on sales), the SNES, the Gameboy, the GBA, the PS1, and PS2 are successes. Everything else is a failure in my book with exception of the X Box which wasn't really a success but it was a good first step into the market.
So, I will have no problem admitting I'm wrong if the DS reaches even 25 million, but it it doesn't even reach 20 then it's just another Game Cube or Dreamcast.
HD:
--- Quote from: Rastaman Vibration on January 04, 2006, 10:45:38 AM ---The Japanese know their games.
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--- Quote ---I cant wait to get the Revolution
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real talk, nintendo 4 life
Trauma-san:
--- Quote from: Teflon Tom Gotti on January 05, 2006, 04:16:58 PM ---its a videogame, its not that serious
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New York's a city, it's not that serious.
Gotti's a gangster, it's not that serious.
etc. etc.
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