Nintendo DS tops PlayStation Portable in worldwide shipments
They didn't get around to telling us this until now, but Nintendo says that as of last month they've shipped over five million Nintendo DS consoles and that the company is well on its way to selling another five or six million consoles during the next 12 months. Sony's gotten off to a slower start (a higher price tag and a March launch date'll do that). They've shipped only 2.5 million PlayStation Portables worldwide since its debut in Japan last year, about half a mil short of their target of three million consoles by the end of March, but say they're still on track to ship 12 million PSP consoles in the year ending March 31st, 2006, which would put them ahead of Nintendo by this time next year. Mixed news, but what fanboys on neither side want to admit is that the market is simply big enough for both consoles.
