Nintendo DS (DS)Nintendo: Potential DS Sales Of 152MGamasutra - January 30, 2008
Submitted by oznerol (1)
at 1:53PM PST on February 2, 2009
Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata says the Wii and Nintendo DS still have room to grow their audience.
He predicts that DS's total installed base in Japan, Europe, and the U.S. could reach reach an "ultimate potential" of 152.2 million units, driven by strong European sales and the system's "gaming population expansion."
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If he were to do the same calculation a year from now it would be even higher, since non-zero DS sales will make the percentage of the Japanese population which has a DS higher.