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Nintendo 3DS succeeding Nintendo DS

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

Over the past 5 years it has been seen that the stock of () is on a steady growth and this is not because of the success of . In fact this success of was due to the DS video game system released in late 2004.

The fortune of also grew after the release of DS’ first hardware revision named .

More than 130 million units across the world has been sold of the various incarnations of the console and it became the best selling video game platform in the history of gaming industry.

But all these only seems to be just a begining. unveiled the 3DS, the next gaming device.

It was revealed at the event that the 3DS will be succeeding the DS and it will be a clamshell-shaped device with 2 LCD screens.

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DSi XL Handheld Device

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

system was released a year ago. Next DS to strike is XL. Its screen is nearly double compared to . It is expected to available for sale on 28th March, 2010 in two colors (reddish-purple and bronze).

XL is little bit heavy in weight than previous models but it’s very much durable. Its size is very surprising; it’s still “pocketable”. It has two huge screens its video quality is very much remarkable.

Brand name of XL is “social device” by due to bigger screen and it also allows multiple people to view the screen at the same time.

It also has a much bigger stylus which looks like a pen or permanent marker. Complete review of XL will be available in coming week. Keep in touch with CNET for knowing latest reviews about XL.

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Nintendo again tops the chart

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

The Media-Create’s weekly Japanese hardware sales list was captured by the PSP-3000 captured, but DS along with its 3 different models were able to edge out the Sony’s line overall.

For January 31 week end 47,875 units of UMD-based PSP-3000 was sold. Earlier it was 52,909. The newer UMD-less sibling PSP Go has fallen down in its unit sales again this week. It sold 1,645 units. Prior week it was 1,773.

The larger-screened version, the LL, of landed to the third-place spot after the . It sold 34,863 units, up about 10,000 units. All the DS line combined, even the LL, the , and the , total sold 66,457 unit, which is up from the combined sales of 49,398 prior week. All the credit goes to Dragon Quest VI.

PS3 sales rose notably. It was 34,431 units, which is up from 26,966.

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