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Grandma likes it big - DSi LL selling better than PSP Go

Posted Nov 24, 2009 at 5:11AM EST by Glenn M.

Listed in: News, PSP Go Tags: Enterbrain, Famitsu, Japan, Nintendo, Sony
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DSi LL - Image 1When it comes to the two newest gaming portables, it seems that Nintendo walked a better path than Sony. Sure, the target market may be different in some respects, with the DSi being aimed to the elderly as well, but when it comes right down to it, the new DSi LL is selling better than the PSP Go.

Stats come from Enterbrain, publisher of the popular gaming mag, Famitsu - the DSi LL outstrips the PSP Go by a sizable amount. Launched November 22nd in Japan, DSi LL sold approximately 103,524 units in its first two days. It's not as much as the 170,000 approximately hauled in by the smaller DSi, but it's certainly more than the 28,000 that the PSP Go sold at day one.

No stats available for how many PSP Go units were sold on its second day, but it's doubtful that it came close to the DSi LL's. It appears now, despite media devices getting smaller, bigger is better for the DSi LL.



Bigger is better:


Via Manichi Newspapers



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# -APerson 2009-11-24 07:23
It's a DS, what do people expect? By now everyone has at least 2 DS', right?

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# roflPortable 2009-11-24 07:35
Grandma likes is big!

So wrong.

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# IT STILL PRINTS MONEY !!Order-Sol 2009-11-24 08:02
http://static.funnyjunk.com/gifs/prints_money_1_.gif



No more flash cards thou. :(

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# hmm...ov3rkill 2009-11-24 08:10
Doesn't this make the game looks more pixelated?

Haven't read reviews about it. But I think it's the most obvious thing on this upsize.

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# WTF!?!?!?!?!ISOHaven 2009-11-24 08:58
I agree, that headline creeped me out. But I guess that's my own fault eh? HAHAHAHA!!!

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# NO!! bang head onto wallb-k24 2009-11-24 09:52
Screen size and resolution are to different things!! you have a computer and you dnt know the difference.

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# .....Silver-Tiger 2009-11-24 10:55
ov3rkill is right. Bigger screen at the same resolution WILL make the picture more pixelated. Try playing a PSone game on your HDTV and tell me it doesn't look pixelated.



The difference between the DSi and the DSi LL aren't that big, though, so it doesn't matter much anyway.

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# my opinionRE FREAK 2 2009-11-24 11:29
in my opinion the PSP is way better than the DS OR DSi.the PSP can run ALMOST anything a DS can.















TAKE THAT NINTENDO!!!!!!! !

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# I like them BIG 2..Cyber-X- 2009-11-24 11:50
I like big butts and I can not lie

You other brothers can't deny

That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist

And a round thing in your face

You get sprung

Wanna pull up tough

Cuz you notice that butt was stuffed

Deep in the jeans she's wearing

I'm hooked and I can't stop staring

Oh, baby I wanna get with ya

And take your picture

My homeboys tried to warn me

But that butt you got

Make Me so horney

Ooh, rump of smooth skin

You say you wanna get in my benz

Well use me use me cuz you aint that average groupy



I've seen them dancin'

To hell with romancin'

She's Sweat,Wet, got it goin like a turbo vette



I'm tired of magazines

Saying flat butts are the thing

Take the average black man and ask him that

She gotta pack much back



So Fellas (yeah) Fellas(yeah)

Has your girlfriend got the butt (hell yeah)

Well shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake that healthy butt

Baby got back





BUT DAM that title is quite sick..XP

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# DS is a childs play thing.. PSP is any adults media center.Cyber-X- 2009-11-24 11:59
I never liked the DS period



PSP was and always will be my favorite portable system.



Until XBox Portable is out that is. :D

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# -APerson 2009-11-24 13:18
Oh wow, you 2 are missing out on some very fun games. I've been playing my PSP more recently but the DS' library is fantastic. Both Advance Wars, new Castlevanias, the FF remakes, Tactics Advance 2, the Kirby titles, Mario Kart, the ever addictive Pokemon. And they're just from my own small (19 game) collection.



Also the PSP can run anything the DS can? Oh right, I never knew my PSP had a touchscreen.

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# fdYAMI ANUBIS X 2009-11-24 14:26
Actually the fact is, the reason DSi LL is selling more than a PSP GO is because of multiple reasons, its a Nintendo handheld and last but not least, it has a way cheaper price tag than a GO does.



Who the **** would buy a 250 dollar handheld, when they can buy a DSi LL?



Yes they could buy a PSP 3000, way cheaper than GO but everyone thinks the Go is a brand spanking new handheld, so everyone buys a DSi LL because it has a cheaper price tag.

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# LMAO at the title!DJ PON-3 2009-11-24 15:03
This great for people who have fat hands lol

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# WrongHgaara01 2009-11-24 15:49
It would make it the DSi's retarded little brother, the DSi LL has barely been released compared to the older DSi.

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# asdfholden77 2009-11-24 15:54
will go down as one of the smartest marketing moves in history dropping the GameBoy tag, here in Japan every old woman has had a DS since they came out, and parents are happy to buy them for their kids cus they think it has educational potential. these are the kind of people who would'nt touch a PSP cus its a game machine, pure genius nintendo! make the 10 year out of date graphics a selling point!

it don't look much better than a GBA to me but what do i i know?

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# ..iluvfuz 2009-11-24 16:07
Lol @ b-k24's comment. I thought the same thing when they announced the DSi LL. The screen looks at least 50% larger...making the pixels even fatter. The DSi's resolution was already small enough--that'll just make it worse.

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# what do you know?splontot 2009-11-24 18:18
Absolutely nothing it seems.





Have you ever played a DS? Its a great system, if you say it only has kid games you're either an ignorant ***** or just plain retarded.

Just because a game doesn't have your "M" rating with lots of swearing and blood, doesn't mean its only for kids. It just means the games are that much better to overcome that.



"make the 10 year out of date graphics a selling point!"

/facepalm



I don't understand why people who call themselves gamers ***** about graphics... would you rather play an amazing game with N64 graphics or a great game that pushes the PS3 to its limits? If you would choose the second one, you are in no way a gamer to me.

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# im baffledsplontot 2009-11-24 18:20
The slashes before apostrophes and quotation marks confuse me.

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# STFURE FREAK 2 2009-11-24 18:38
raggedjimmi did u even take the *****1n 10 seconds to read it i said"ALMOST" u dumbass piece of crap im pretty sure u like them just as the old lady does BIG AND UP UR ASS

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# @raggedjimmiSaDuWo 2009-11-24 21:25
there are mods for the touchscreen, but who cares? Touchscreens are stupid gimmicks for people who think 'omaigawrsh cool' at something like that. Okay, so there's like maybe 5 handheld lifetime hours of that actually feeling fresh and innovative... And then it's seriously just a waste of time to make games more complicated to make if they accommodate for functionality with it. Advance wars: there's I and II on GBA, shined up graphics aren't necessary. Mario Kart: there's fifty others. Poke'mon: THE NEW ONES SUCK ANYWAY. Kirby: millions. FF: they're on the PSP too, and much better looking. Bombed to hell.

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# Who caresSaDuWo 2009-11-24 21:29
About the sales of every iteration of every single console? First off, they should be grouped together as a whole. PSP, DS. They have the same library of games (mostly, other than a lot of PSP games not available to the go, a stupid decision), and mostly have the same functionality, but all that's added are little gimmicks that have nothing to do with the primary functions of each device. The only reason nintendo sales were and have been up, were die hard fans who had to have them, only to realize they are awful and go to microsoft or sony, and the fact that the target audience are old people and small kids, as well as simple minded teenagers.... endrant.

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# WTF!?!?!?!?!ISOHaven 2009-11-25 08:54
raggedjimmi is right, the PSP CAN NOT do what the DS can. Most of the games are built around the touchscreen. It's called casual game play and it's a #1 hit. Which brings us to SaDuWo idiot comment. Gimmick? Obviously you are dead wrong as countless millions on top of millions of people highly disagree with you.



YOU may not like it, but that doesn't make it a "gimmick".

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# WTF!?!?!?!?!ISOHaven 2009-11-25 08:56
@splontot - after your post refresh the page.



The DS has games for ALL AGES. That's why it's such a major hit. You would think Sony could figure that out and adjust their marketing but noooooo...morons!

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# -APerson 2009-11-25 11:35
Ah thank you Isohaven. I'm glad there are some intelligent users on this site.

Whilst I don't completely agree on the casual front, since touchscreen controls speed up gameplay on the more hardcore titles (FFTA2, Metroid).



But no, the PSP doesn't come with a touchscreen. People can mod it all they want - it wont have the full support as the DS does. Read up on what counts as "standard hardware".



That's a rather poor argument against the games I listed. There's no need for new Advance Wars? Using this logic theres already a Final Fantasy I-III on the NES, I guess we don't need any more with "shined up graphics", seeing that we're completely disregarding gameplay, engine and multiplayer enhancements. Name 50 Kart games better than Mario Kart DS. Good luck. There's a Final Fantasy Tactics 2 and FF3+4 DS remakes on PSP? Oh you must link me to these! Yea - they don't exist!



And finally, the DS is the best selling games console of all time. I honestly don't think Nintendo cares if you don't buy a DS.



I know a lot of people are mindless fanboys but come on now...

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# this is how much i care about nintendo...metaangel 2009-11-26 07:46
i didint evn o they were making a new DS

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# yeahSaDuWo 2009-11-26 16:21
Me too.... The past 2 (or 3?) iterations of it I never even heard of until some weird news (like this) comes up about it.

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# Wait a second.. o.oSaDuWo 2009-11-26 23:39
My first thought upon reading this SHOULD have been "They're making a FATTER ds?!!! Why, oh god why?!!! Isn't it big enough already?!!!"

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# angry gamer comments of flame warxyal_zx 2009-11-27 15:11
i love how ppl keep saying that their personal preference is better than others. ok OBVIOUSLY PSP is a better handheld. it costs more too. i wouldnt want my kids playing my $100-300 fragile handheld. so thanks to nintendo we have an option that is both affordable and durable. as for the stylus and touch screen being a gimmick, no way. the games use would determine how gimmicky it is. touchpad technology has been in laptops for decades and allows mouse functionality. calling such a basic pc function a gimmick is just stupid. personally just like my psp a whole lot more. i like the screen size and firmware of the psp a million times more. movies pictures music internet and games on one portable console. nothing beats it. only problem i really have with ds though is simply that FF3 and 4 remakes woulda been a million times better as PSN titles than ds games and the zelda *****n blew.

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# WTF!?!?!?!?!ISOHaven 2009-11-30 13:34
"The PSP is much better"



As always, your opinion does not match the majority. So obviously the PSP is not better.



The handheld of choice depends on what a person wants. In other words, neither is better and neither is worse. But I wouldn't expect a dummy such as yourself to understand such a simple concept.

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# WTF!?!?!?!?!ISOHaven 2009-11-30 13:34
"The PSP is much better"



As always, your opinion does not match the majority. So obviously the PSP is not better.



The handheld of choice depends on what a person wants. In other words, neither is better and neither is worse. But I wouldn't expect a dummy such as yourself to understand such a simple concept.

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# nvidia tegraGuest 2009-12-05 06:35
this ds have a nvidia chip thats make this so intrested for me im gonna buy it
flashcart support or not
i think it got more power with one nvidia chip instead of the 2 arm

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