According
to Thomson Financial, Nintendo’s 2008 plan includes the launch of
a "localized" edition of its DS system in Taiwan. The company intends
to release the device later on this month for Taiwan and sometime at
the end of the year on the Chinese market.
Last month Nintendo,
currently largest portable game console maker in the world, announced
it would bring the Wii home console in Taiwan starting July 12.
The
DS was released in South Korea last year; since then, 1.4 million units
of the console have been sold, as well as 2.6 million game titles.
About
five weeks ago, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said that the company
does not intend to lower the prices of its Wii and Nintendo DS video
games for the following fiscal year. In fact, Wii’s price has
been kept constant ever since its release in November 2006.
Nintendo
seems to be thinking big, as more than 28 million DS units are expected
to be sold. Wii’s situation is still a bit delicate, since cases
in which customers cannot purchase the game continue to be reported. At
one point, the company was considering the possibility of increasing
production to no less than 2.4 million units a month. At the end of May
2007, Nintendo announced its plan to have more than 35 million Wii
owners worldwide by 2012. Judging by the way things are going right
now, with the continuous expansion of the market, there is a very high
chance that expectations will be significantly exceeded.
From : http://www.enews20.com/
