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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.

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1. Cool. Nintendo taking the world by storm.

Posted at 5:39PM on Jun 26th 2007 by hvnlysoldr

2. This is indeed true. When I came over to Seoul to teach English a year ago, I was armed with my DS Lite. Back then, the DS had just been released in North America. I saw virtually zero DS Lites in public.

Now, however, I see them EVERYWHERE as people play them all the time on the subway, and students in every class have DS Lites. They are definitely catching on here to the DS Lite!

http://thedailykimchi.blogspot.com

Posted at 8:22PM on Jun 26th 2007 by Gdog

3. Did the writer in Korea also tell you that if you go to the game discount department you will be offered the "pirate machine" R4 and also be offered 20 games with the "bundle purchase"

I was offered that sweet deal and refused like a proud .....um...non pirating person.............

Seriously someone should go down there and jail their illegal asses.

Posted at 10:43PM on Jun 26th 2007 by THEINFINITE

4. Now if someone releases Starcraft for the DS, Nintendo will own the Korean economy ;P

Posted at 4:42AM on Jun 27th 2007 by Kefka

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