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There was a spot about the DS in a recent Wall Street Journal. I think that demand actually exceeded what everyone had anticipated by quite a bit.
I've barely had my GBA for 6 months, I'm a little slow to buy gaming peripherals that aren't major consoles. I think that Nintendo and everyone else was surprised at the willingness of consumers to eat this thing up with all the fears that it would be the next Virtual Boy or N-Gage, the lack of a flagship title (Mario 64 is great, but it's 8 years old), and the tiny game library, even for Nintendo's standards.
It looks like the PSP is going to blow the lid open on what's been a Nintendo-dominated market since they created it back with the original Game Boy. From what we're seeing of these DS sales, a lot more people are ready to plunk down the bucks for a handheld than everyone thought.
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