Yes, the Nintendo 3DS is not a stellar hit like the Nintendo DS was.
There's already been a euphoric take up of the Nintendo DS handheld videogame device.
Perhaps more disturbing are similarly low Nintendo DS sales numbers (18, 324 sold, a 37% decrease).
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Nintendo 3DS can also play Nintendo DS game cards with their original 2D visuals.
Nintendo DS has topped 150 M units sold worldwide, leaving its tabletop console cousins in the dust.
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Things like that, (unintelligible) outfits and then, particularly, my four-and-a-half year-old is looking for a Nintendo DS Lite.
Basically, you have the same number of people playing games on iOS devices as on Nintendo DS consoles.
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Ever since the first concept designs appeared on the web, the Nintendo DS was met with skepticism.
But the various models of Nintendo DS have far outperformed them, with more than 145 million units sold worldwide.
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And so when people talk about how we're doing vis-a-vis the Nintendo DS, again, it's not the whole story.
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As an aside, there are four channels of Nintendo DS pictochat going on.
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The Nintendo DS may tempt the adventurous with new modes of interaction, but the PSP resets expectations of portable gaming.
The launch of Nintendogs is responsible for making Nintendo DS the best-selling system in Japan, outselling the PSP by three times.
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Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Jack Tretton is making headlines with his condescending remarks about Nintendo DS players and their owners.
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Six years ago, the display quality of the Nintendo DS was clearly below the quality of best smartphones, but not distractingly so.
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Both the Nintendo DS and the Wii have finally become highly-appraised platforms.
Nintendo also reported losses in its latest quarterly release, but attributed those to falling prices of its Wii and Nintendo DS gaming systems.
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Compatibility functions where both new software designed for Nintendo 3DS and most software for the Nintendo DS family of systems can be played.
It showed a slide at its own conference last September where the iPhone OS had more than 21, 000 games and Nintendo DS only around 3, 600.
Readers with children or teenagers will recognize them from the Nintendo DS or the Wii console and the hours their children spend on these things.
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"Just as with Nintendo DS and Wii, a number of new game ideas will be born to take advantage of these new control mechanisms, " he said.
For instance, if we take lifetime unit sales, Nintendo DS has sold 132 million units, while Sony PSP has sold more than 50 million units.
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HarperCollins, for instance, has sold hundreds of thousands of cartridges in Britain that let users read electronic versions of classic texts on Nintendo DS portable game consoles.
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Whereas the Game Boy, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS were met with universal success, the Nintendo 3DS is currently sitting on store shelves, waiting to be purchased.
"There was a period when we first released the Nintendo DS that people would say there's no way people can look at two screens at once, " he said.
Both the PSP and Nintendo DS include WiFi, but digital camera manufacturers have struggled with it outside of the professional market and it isn't in any mainstream camcorder.
He adds that though many consider the Nintendo DS handheld line mainly for casual games, the upcoming 3DS will have the power and potential to support core games.
Nintendo will be following up soon with a free WiFi connection service for Nintendo DS owners that will launch later this year, linking players from around the world.
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What happened to the days of having to choose between your phone, laptop, tablet, netbook, Kindle, other phone, smart watch, Nintendo DS, PSP and 112 pages of glossy print?
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