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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh

I'm not sure. I have few numbers, and of course you monitor the market much more closely than me, but I have to say, my informal "subway observations" shows PSPs seriously trouncing DS adoption in the NY area. I see, on average, one PSP in almost every subway ride I take in the midday, and today I saw two. There also was the recent headline about how UMDs are selling very well in the US (which, of course, could be because of the lack of games). As for DSes, I see maybe one a week. Of my friends, several have PSPs, and none have DSes.

Perhaps it's different in different regions or different countries?

--janak

Well I've never seen anyone else with a PSP (although a few have asked me about it), let alone with a DS, however considering that Nintendogs supposedly sold 250,000 copies in the US (based on Nintendo's numbers, mind you), that's probably more than all of Sony's games put together in the US. I can't figure out Nintendogs however; looks like a great technology demo, but where's the game? Reminds me of a more interactive Tamagotchi-type app. I like the animation on the dogs however.

There hasn't been any PSP games worth merit since April, but it usually takes a year before it seems like a system really takes off. Around me (metro Detroit), it could be that both systems are slow sellers, and that most people are gearing up for the X360/PS3/Revolution.

The Gizmodo reminds me too much of the N-Gage; it's trying to be a beefed-up phone, but with an ugly design and not a lot of backing.