A few recent reports suggested that Japanese gamers weren’t too bothered about the DSi, but those theories seem to have been proven conclusively wrong, with Game | Life suggesting that the initial shipment of 200,000 consoles has all but sold out, with Nintendo shipping a further 100,000 later this week to try and keep up with demand.

Amazing what a small camera, a few bits of additional software and the promise of ace little downloadable games can do for a console, isn’t it? Even when it’s one seemingly owned by virtually everyone in its country of origin. Looks like the DS success story isn’t about to come to a premature end any time soon. It only remains to be seen how many people are prepared to make the switch - but I think the DSi will be on top for a fair while yet, particularly when word gets out about exactly what it can do.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 at 11:23 pm by Chris Schilling
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