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kotaku.com - 5/11/2009

One In Five Japanese People Now Own A Nintendo DS [Nintendo]

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You may be aware, from hanging around the internet, that Japan loves the Nintendo DS. But it takes a nice little mix of pictures and statistics to really ram the point home. This chart was released by Nintendo today, and shows the percentage of a market's population that owns a DS. By ...

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gamasutra.com - 5/13/2009

News - Interview: Combating R4 Piracy On The DS

— gamasutra.com — The games industry has billed the R4 card as the scourge of the Nintendo DS market, allowing... users to download free, illegal copies of DS games with relative ease, and play them via a flash memory card -- no trench coat-sporting bootlegging middlemen ... (more) News - Interview: Combating R4 Piracy On The DS

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atlus.com - 5/12/2009

Official Knights in the Nightmare Website

— atlus.com — * 2009 Sting Licensed to and published by Atlus U.S.A., Inc. * Nintendo and the Nintendo DS... logo are trademarks of Nintendo. 2006 Nintendo. * The rating icons are trademarks of the Entertainment Software Association. * This site requires the ... (more) Official Knights in the Nightmare Website

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kotaku.com - 5/13/2009

Well, The DSi Didn't Stay Piracy-Free For Long [Ds]

— kotaku.com — I've always suspected that whole point of the Nintendo DSi - and its online firmware updates -... was not to introduce new features, but to curtail piracy. Fat lot of good it's done them. See, the DS and DS Lite were easy pickings for anyone looking to ... (more) Well, The DSi Didn't Stay Piracy-Free For Long [Ds]

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One in five Japanese folks own a DS
Destructoid — ... You'd think by now that with the sheer amount of DS units being sold around Japan every week, everybody in the country would have one of the bloody things. While this is apparently not true, the fact that one in five Japanese consumers own Nintendo's dual-screened handheld is still pretty damn impressive. ...

Japan - one in five people own a DS
GoNintendo — ... Wow, pretty substantial install base for Japan if you ask me! It’s also crazy to see just how big the sales are in the rest of the world, yet how small the actual percentage is. Link Posted May 11th, 2009 at 8:22 am | ...

One in Five Japanese People Owns a DS
The Escapist : Latest News — ... "yes" 1/5th of the time. That's crazy. Of course, the numbers do seem a little odd. It seems to me that this is Nintendo measuring total sales against the population of the country, so if some gamer bought the regular DS, then the DS Lite, and now the DSi, they'd count for three people alone. But even with that potential overstatement, even if every single gamer in Japan owns three versions of the DS, that's still almost a 1-in-10 chance. Which is pretty impressive in its own right. ( Kotaku )

Nintendo sold enough DS systems in Japan for one-fifth of the population
Joystiq [Nintendo] — ... belong to one person -- people who bought DS Phats re-bought Lites and then DSis; and no doubt many people bought second systems for a new color scheme or a limited-edition, or to replace a broken system. Regardless, the DS has undeniably made its mark on Japanese society. The US and Europe, on the other hand, have almost reached ten percent market penetration each. Just ten percent? That's merely outstanding -- what a disappointment for Nintendo. [Via Kotaku] Nintendo sold enough DS systems in Japan for one-fifth of the population ...

Portable gaming is still big in Japan
That VideoGame Blog — ... as many times as I have then you’ll understand the gravity of a situation like that, especially when you realize that one in every five Japanese people own a DS. ...

DS Sales Broken Down by Region
GameDaily BIZ Features Feed — Kotaku is reporting that Nintendo released worldwide statistics for sales of the Nintendo DS. Europe has seen 33.1 million DS unit sales while the U.S. has seen 29.3 million sales of the DS. This equals roughly ten percent of the population of those regions. In Japan, there have been 26.1 million DS system purchases. While numerically lower than the the other regions, the number equals over 20 percent of the Japanese population. The penetration rates are most certainly lower than one-for-one with the regional population, but the numbers suggest the system is well on its way ...