Wii | Furious February sales impress analysts

Prognosticators single out DS, point to gaming's recession resistance; "PS3 in dire need of a price cut," says Greenwald. There are a dozen different ways to look at the monthly data dump that is the monthly NPD US retail sales report . For interpretations of February's numbers, GameSpot turned to a handful of industry analysts and asked what stood out for them. DSi be damned, the DS Lite keeps on selling. While much of the focus for Nintendo was on the first-place finishes of the Wii and Wii Fit, Electronic Entertainment Design and Research analyst Jesse Divnich was more interested in sales of the company's handheld. "Nintendo DS hardware was very impressive," Divnich told GameSpot. "Typically when we're approaching the launch of a new hardware system, we'd expect a decline in hardware sales approaching that date." Divnich said the absence of a sales decline suggests that DS Lites are being snapped up by casual and ... (link)