Korean retailers relying on the DS
One of the writers over at 4cr lives in Korea, so what better person to gauge the shop owners' and overall market feel over there than him? Nobody, that's who, and according to his latest findings in the busy section of Yongsan (the be all, end all authority on the Korean games market, apparently), the DS Lite is driving sales in the region. This, of course, comes as no surprise, seeing as how the handheld dominates the Japanese market month after month and does its fair share of work in the U.S. and Europe.
One shop manager says that without the DS Lite they'd "have virtually no income at all, and it's been this way for months." In terms of volume of units sold, the DS Lite apparently flies off the shelves as the handheld "moves over 200 units a day, and while we don't make any profit on the system itself, we make money off of the games." And, according to him, at least, the "PSP is as good as dead" as sales for Sony's handheld have leveled off months ago.
