10 Million Nintendo DS Units Sold Since Launch

DS Gamer writes "Nintendo has announced that worldwide sales of their twin-screen handheld console the Nintendo DS have reached the 10 million mark since its launch in the United States during late November 2004. The vast majority of sales have been in the United States (4 million) and Japan (5 million) where the DS became the fastest selling games machine of all time. From the Reuters article: 'It is on the upswing of its life cycle," Perrin Kaplan, Nintendo of America's vice president of marketing, told Reuters in a telephone interview. She declined to give a sales forecast but said the Japan-based company would provide additional information during its upcoming quarterly financial report. Kaplan added that Nintendo's seven-week-old Wi-Fi Connection wireless gaming service has had more than 550,000 unique visitors globally.'" Commentary is available on Forbes and Gamespot.

Comments

Nice...

[Demanche]

Is the wi-fi access free or fee-based?

Doing the math

[ewg]

That's 20 million screens!

And I'll bet 30 million lost styl-i by now...

Is that so.

[millennial]

And yet I can't find a single person over the age of 18 that has one. Other than... me...

Re:Is that so.

[oscarmv]

I have the solution for your case. In your moment of maximum desperation at your loneliness, just shout "OUENDAAAAAAAN"

(kudos to anyone who gets it. Game of the year AFAIC).

Journalism

[mypalmike]

Forbes:
"With more than five million units sold in Japan since its December 2004 regional launch, the DS has become the fastest-selling gaming machine in the country's history. Japanese gamers have also bought more than a million copies of four different titles within one year of the system's launch: Nintendogs--a game where users play with, train, pet, and wash a virtual dog, Animal Crossing, Wild World, Brain Age, and Brain Flex."
- Chris Noon

Gamespot:
"With more than 5 million units sold in Japan since its December 2004 regional launch, the DS has become the fastest-selling gaming machine in Japan's history. In another first, Japanese gamers have scooped up more than a million copies of four different titles within one year of a system's launch: Nintendogs, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Brain Age, and Brain Flex."
- Tim Surette

4 million in US, 5 million in Japan, 0 in Greece

[Ucklak]

I think Game Boys are illegal in Greece
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-956357.html

Re:Mario Kart DS

[geminidomino]

Hey man, I spent the better part of highschool holed up in my room with my two best friends and my brother, beating the shit out of each other with turtle shells and banana peels. ;)

I want to share this bonding ritual with strangers all over the world (and pwn them!)

Re:Mario Kart DS

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey man, I spent the better part of highschool holed up in my room with my two best friends and my brother, beating the shit out of each other with turtle shells and banana peels. ;)

Wow. Your parents should have bought you a Nintendo or something.

Re:If only DS could be a little better looking....

[TheWickedKingJeremy]

I will buy DS if it is not that ugly...

... Let me make a wild guess here. You were a Backstreet Boys fan. Their earlier stuff moved you... you laughed, you cried. Yet, as the years went by and as their popularity grew, your love for them cooled. Was their work compromised by fame or money? You weren't quite sure... but you were ready to move on, and weren't going to wait to find out.

Now, you're a Black Eyed Peas fan, and you're not looking back.