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Originally Posted by SirDave
Okay, the DS is successful, but in America, it is not 'flying off the shelves' the way it is in Japan and Europe.
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It's sold over 9 million units in America. That's pretty much on track for any successful system here. It's lagging behind Japan and Europe, but it's still selling faster than the PSP and Xbox 360. It's not a PS2-esque phenomenon, but it's still a very well established platform with quite a few million+ sellers here.
And handhelds have always been marginalized in stores because they cost more to produce and less to sell to the customer (you can thank carts for this). Stores don't want to push products with a low profit margin, and Nintendo doesn't try to twist arms to get their products in more desireable locations in stores (the last time they did, they got hit with a massive legal battle and lost).
In any case, the point is that DS adventure games have gotten people who otherwise don't care about the genre talking about it.
