Pachter: Nintendo to launch DS successor as early as end of this year
We may not get more colors or a redesign for the Nintendo DS, but there’s a possibility for another thing altogether: the successor to the DS. Why put it out now when the DS still prints money? Check out Pachter’s explanation in the full article.
Nintendo of America may have expressed its apparent intent (or lack thereof) on releasing new redesigns for their DS handheld. However Wedbush Morgan’s oracle Michael Pachter has another thing in mind: that Nintendo may launch the successor to the DS as early as the end of year.
Seeing that the DS still prints money, and that the handheld’s current profitability is the reason why Nintendo is reluctant to see a redesign on the Nintendo DS, why launch the successor so soon?
The reasons posed by Pachter were the following: DS sales are currently weak in Japan, and “that lower than expected DS hardware sales could trigger an earlier launch for the new device,” according to the analyst.
While the decline isn’t so apparent in the US and Europe territories where DS sales numbers are still soaring high, Pachter believes that the number of Japanese consumers who would snap up the handheld will significantly lessen, and may very well prompt Nintendo to launch a new handheld console before the year ends.
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Via EDGE