Nintendo DS expected to outship Sony PSP by as much as 30% this year
Sony's PSP was the best-selling portable game console in 2005, but the Nintendo DS has turned the tables this year: According to market research firm In-Stat, the Nintendo may ship 25 to 30% more devices than Sony.
"Nintendo followed up successful Japanese and North American launches of its DS product in late 2004 with a successful introduction in Europe in the first quarter of 2005," said Brian O'Rourke, In-Stat analyst. "The DS's two screens have proven popular, and have opened up the handheld market to new types of game play, as well as new demographic groups."
Nintendo has been able to steadily increase sales of the DS system and wrote in its most recent quarter report that it has shipped 16 million units in the 16 months after launch in November 2004. According to industry sources, monthly production levels of the DS hovered around 700,000 in the first half of this year; in June, Nintendo apparently increased production to 2.2 million units per month, which would be in line with the firm's recent statement that DS hardware sales were up 300% year-over-year in July.
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