Japanese gamers opt for DS over PSP

DS News | Japanese adults prefer the Nintendo handheld, according to a new survey out this week.

A survey conducted and published by Japanese magazine Otonafami has revealed that Nintendo may still have an edge over rival Sony in the Japanese market. The poll, which focussed on the views of Japanese adult gamers, revealed some interesting bits of information on consumer attitudes towards the Nintendo DS and Sony Playstation Portable handhelds.

Perhaps most relevantly, it appears that Japan - or at least the grown-up bit of Japan - has a preference for Nintendo's DS handheld. The news arrived just as the DS will break the 2.5 million unit sales mark this week. Of the 1000 gamers polled (all of whom were aged over 20), 25 per cent of them owned a Nintendo DS, 14 per cent owned a PSP, and 19 per cent owned both consoles.

And the good news continued for Ninty as well, with the poll revealing that, of those who owned neither handheld, 35 per cent said that they planned to buy a DS, whilst 31 per cent wanted a PSP. 19 per cent planned to buy both, the affluent swines. Heck, the DS is even ruling the roost when it comes to software - whereas 11 per cent of PSP owners have six or more titles for their handheld console, 23 per cent of DS owners own six or more titles for their handheld.

Meanwhile, Japanese market research firm Media Create have also revealed that six months since the debut of the both the DS and PSP, overall Japanese sales of the two consoles now total almost 4 million, with the Nintendo DS enjoying a 1,059,614 unit lead over its rival. And with 2,499,174 DS units sold against the 1,439,560 PSPs out there, things are looking rosier by the minute for the suits at Nintendo.

Nevertheless, with the PSP set to launch in Europe and Australia on 1st September, this is a race that's far from over.

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Hyperworm

6 years ago

It's not surprising, what with the Japanese market having had Nintendogs, Meteos, Kirby, Another Code, Electroplankton, Advance/Famicom Wars, Goemon, etc. already (some of those for quite some time now). The US market's only very recently got Kirby and Meteos is coming out soon, and the PAL market only has Another Code.
Japan's swimming in top-class DS software, so it's only to be expected that it'd be selling great there.

The same will happen here and in the US when we get more decent titles, assuming that Nintendo's not left them too late to have decent impacts on the PSP...

It's interesting that this survey focuses solely on people 20 and older. I wonder what the statistics would be for the younger crowd?

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