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Can the new Nintendo DS stave off competitors?

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Oct 2, 2008 11:25 AM EDT
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During a press event in Tokyo Thursday, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata took the wraps off the DSi, which packs a bulit-in camera, music playback and a bigger display than the current model.

The Nintendo DS is the undisputed champ of the handheld game market. Nipping at its heels, though, are all the other feature-rich devices that have launched in the past four years, such as the iPhone, the iPod touch, and the Sony PSP, which also gets a refresh in mid-October.

Do you think Nintendo can hang onto its formidable lead? Will you buy a Nintendo DSi when it migrates to our shores sometime in 2009?

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JasonGW

Honestly I don't think Nintendo needs to "secure" their position in the handheld market--they've already done that. What they are doing with DSi is simply to expand that market. They cater to the casual with the camera, and to the hardcore with the music playback and DSWare/Nintendo store integration.

On a monthly basis, Nintendo DS continues to outsell all comers on a worldwide basis (regionally, PSP has outsold DS in Japan this year so far, but worldwide DS has sold far more units overall), and it continues to build a software library with a very broad range of content. It's precisely that broad range of content that enables the DS to sell the way it does to so many different people, and there's no evidence that'll be changing any time soon.

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    Reply#1 - Thu Oct 2, 2008 11:48 AM EDT
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    John Phelan-Cummings

    What's the camera for; will you be able to take pictures with it? 3 megapexil is no longer the minimum.
    Will it have a module for tracking contacts?

    Could this product end up being worth more w/less if it does include more practical functionality?

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      Reply#2 - Thu Oct 2, 2008 1:05 PM EDT
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