What Japan Thinks has reported about a recent internet survey conducted by DIMSDRIVE to determine the ownership of portable games machines in Japan. It seems that the DS sales like hotcakes in Japan with a total of 32.3% who answered that they own at least one of the two versions of the dual screen portable, compared to 10.7% who own Sony PSP. The results show also that the brain training games are popular among DS owners, especially elderly. What is more, 60.7% agreed that the selling points of the DS are fun softwares, while 56.9% thought that it is the touch panel. The future of the handheld is rather promising, since 59.4% chose DS and DS Lite as the handheld they want to own in the future, compared to 25.2% who chose PSP!
I guess it’s about time you cast away those nasty prejudices and go get yourself a DS, it’s gonna worth Gold by 2007, when Dragon Quest IX -a game series whose launch dates are considered national holidays in Japan- is released on the Nintendo handheld!
Yes, I caught a game show where people sit there and play various DS games, with the screens blown way up. It was kind of surreal. I have a PSP and am sick to death that Sony blew this chance, they’ve pissed the whole platform away by not getting good games out, not redesigning the machine, enabling UMD to die by not allowing people, you know, use the format in UMD writers and what not (um, Sony, some piracy is a requirement for any platform, dig?). Nintendo has been doing everything right…
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You\’d better read my entry on Japundit in the case you haven\’t caught on the buzz.
[…] Make with these numbers what you will. While it may be easy to say that “PSP is t3h d00m3d!!1″ I think that a 25% desirability rate is still very high. It’s certainly higher than the number of people that wanted Gamecubes or Xboxes, both of which have lived fairly great console lives. Can Sony increase the PSP’s desirability by focusing solely on games? Are you like the Japanese: do you not find value in PSP’s non-gaming functionality?[Via Japundit] […]