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Eighteen months since it first launched and the DS breaks through a significant barrier...
Nintendo has today confirmed that over 21 million Nintendo DS systems have been sold since the platform first launched in November 2004, just eighteen months ago. Breaking down the stats, that equates to one DS sale every two seconds.
The company isn't stopping there with the number crunching however, instead pointing out that across its first nineteen months, Apple only managed to sell one million iPods.
"We're thrilled to be announcing this milestone today," says George Harrison, Nintendo of America's senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications, "especially since Nintendo DS was North America's top-selling video game system of any type in June. We attribute this success to Nintendo's overall strategy of offering something for everyone - from five-year-olds caring for their Nintendogs to 65-year-olds tuning their mental agility with Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day."
By comparison however, sales of the GameBoy Advance SP and Micro have dropped significantly in recent months, although Nintendo expects up to six million Wiis to be sold by the end of the fiscal year in March 2007.
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Added:Sat 23rd Oct 2010 16:18, Post No: 77
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Added:Wed 21st Apr 2010 09:52, Post No: 76
Damn fine answer there...
Added:Wed 21st Apr 2010 02:55, Post No: 75
Maybe if Europe wasn't treated with active contempt by Nintendo, the R4 wouldn't be so damn popular, and there'd be a bit more brand loyalty >_>
Added:Tue 20th Apr 2010 13:29, Post No: 74
"**Recently, Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot outlined the problem that they faced with the DS market, albeit not blaming the device specifically:
"The considerable contraction in the DS market during the year particularly affected Ubisoft, leading to a €160 million, or almost 50%, year-on-year drop in the Company’s casual segment sales."**"
I look at this section and think what utter morons ubisoft have working for them.....there is a
world-wide Recession on so casual sales are going to take a huge hit for everyone....not all people can still casually drop the cash for luxuries like new DS carts or X-Box discs etc
Added:Fri 12th Mar 2010 01:50, Post No: 73
fuu[#@!?] dude. who the fuuck gives a shiit about your nintendo ds and its bull[#@!?] wifi capabilities. moron
Added:Thu 11th Mar 2010 09:27, Post No: 72
My nindtendo DSi need wireless, system update. Please give me some software to use the nintedo DSi.
Added:Fri 26th Feb 2010 04:35, Post No: 71
if you want to now go o youtube and find a clue i will tell mor clews later
Added:Fri 26th Feb 2010 04:33, Post No: 70
i know i secoret to locate the nashinul guferment cp on your ds but it is a secoet no one will know about it not even the fuss
Added:Thu 10th Dec 2009 12:45, Post No: 69
cool i have a ds i want i dsi but for some reson i like the ds more then the psp thats just me
Added:Tue 08th Dec 2009 13:05, Post No: 68
What do you want to know - there's hundresd of news stories related to the DS on this index page?!?!