Japan is cuckoo for the DS. But, what about it specifically makes gamers go gaga? New survey results shed some light into The Land of the Rising Sun's DS craze. The questionnaire (which covered the DS, DS Lite, GBA and the PSP) dug up these tasty factoids:

• 45 percent have portable game devices with the GBA being the most popular (24.1 percent), followed by the DS (17.9 percent), the DS Lite (14.4 percent) and the PSP (10.7).
• 31.8 percent of DS Lite owners use their portable everyday compared with 14.7 percent of PSP users.
• 54.6 percent of gamers play brain games on a regular basis, followed by 37.3 percent playing RPGs.
• 60.7 percent said DS games were interesting. 59.6 percent like the Touch Pen.

And with the next Dragon Quest bound for the DS, the country's mania doesn't seem ready to slow down. Brian Ashcraft

Japanese Portable Survey [Gigazine]

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