Take care if you happen to travel through downtown San Francisco this week: The sidewalks are full of people walking with their heads down, eyes locked on their smart phone, Nintendo DS or Sony PlayStation Portable, deeply engrossed in a video game and not necessarily watching where they are going.
Nintendo sold 3.15 million DS units and Sony 1.2 million PSP units, for a combined total of 4.35 million.
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At a US games developers' conference last week, some suggested that new start-up studios should make games for mobile phones and handheld consoles, like the Sony PSP and the Nintendo DS, instead.
Hall, who has worked across machines such as the N64, Sony PSP, PS2, and Nintendo DS, told CNN that some of the concepts in The Matrix were now "eerily reaching towards theoretical possibility".
For instance, if we take lifetime unit sales, Nintendo DS has sold 132 million units, while Sony PSP has sold more than 50 million units.
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This dominance in the used-game category, coupled with the launch of the current generation of videogame hardware, such as Nintendo's Wii and DS, Microsoft 's Xbox 360, and Sony 's Playstation 3 and PSP systems, has resulted in outstanding growth since the acquisition.
You know, when you look at the numbers on the handheld market, specifically with PSP versus Nintendo DS, the numbers coming out of the analysts are showing that that Sony's handheld is getting trounced in the marketplace.
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Once teams of hard-working Japanese salesmen had prised open American and European markets in the 1970s, Western consumers were quickly won over by Japanese quality, design and price, whether in fuel-efficient cars or snazzy electronic gizmos, such as the Sony Walkman (for readers under 30: a portable machine that played music from tapes) or the Nintendo DS (for readers over 30: a gadget for playing video games).
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