Hereīs some data that puts the DSīs success into perspective.
In the U.S. DS has sold more so far this year (1.70M from January - April) than any other system has over those same months in the past 7 years (I donīt have data going back any further).
For comparison, PS2 sold 1.33M from Jan - Apr of 02 (and sold a total of 8.39M that year); And GBA sold 1.65M from Jan - Apr of 03 (and went on to sell a 7.78M that year).
With 2.5M DSīs being manufactured/month, and Brain Age 2, Picross and Zelda coming out later this year in America, It is most likely that DS will break all previous records this year. And this is just in the U.S.. In Europe, DS is even more popular; and in Japan, even more popular still.
GBA, in comparison, only sold very well in America. In the end, DS will probably outsell GBA in America by a small amount, but outsell GBA by 2:1 in every territory outside America.
Like I said before in more detail (7 posts below), even if DS sales drop off faster than has ever happened before with a first place system (which since Nintendo has 79 DS titles in development is very unlikely) it would STILL reach about 130M.
I think the reason this stock is still so undervalued is that since most people here are American, they see that DS will probably only be slightly more successful in America than the GBA was (which is true), but donīt realize that it is set to double GBA sales outside of America.
Now that theyīre starting to use DS in Japanese schools to teach english(with excellent results), I think that my previous estimate of 150M is too low now.
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In the U.S. DS has sold more so far this year (1.70M from January - April) than any other system has over those same months in the past 7 years (I donīt have data going back any further).
For comparison, PS2 sold 1.33M from Jan - Apr of 02 (and sold a total of 8.39M that year); And GBA sold 1.65M from Jan - Apr of 03 (and went on to sell a 7.78M that year).
With 2.5M DSīs being manufactured/month, and Brain Age 2, Picross and Zelda coming out later this year in America, It is most likely that DS will break all previous records this year. And this is just in the U.S.. In Europe, DS is even more popular; and in Japan, even more popular still.
GBA, in comparison, only sold very well in America. In the end, DS will probably outsell GBA in America by a small amount, but outsell GBA by 2:1 in every territory outside America.
Like I said before in more detail (7 posts below), even if DS sales drop off faster than has ever happened before with a first place system (which since Nintendo has 79 DS titles in development is very unlikely) it would STILL reach about 130M.
I think the reason this stock is still so undervalued is that since most people here are American, they see that DS will probably only be slightly more successful in America than the GBA was (which is true), but donīt realize that it is set to double GBA sales outside of America.
Now that theyīre starting to use DS in Japanese schools to teach english(with excellent results), I think that my previous estimate of 150M is too low now.