35 Million DSes Sold, 6 Million Wiis By End of March

Wowzer writes "Nintendo just announced its quarterly sales for the end of 2006. Sales for the 9 months were up 72%, while net income was up 43%. From the article: '[There will be] worldwide shipments of 6 million Wii systems by the end of March 2007. Nintendo has sold 35 million DS and DS Lite to date ... As for the next fiscal year, Nintendo expect to sell around 23 million DS Lites, bringing the estimated total of DS units to 58 million by March 31, 2008.' New Super Mario Bros. seems to have legs of its own with 8.64 million copies sold worldwide and continued strong sales. But they seem slow to ship out those Wii with 4 million manufactured last year and 810,000 of those not arriving to stores until now."

Comments

Kind of makes you wish Nintendo had vision

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe it's the lack of vision that makes the DS so popular--the fact that it isn't a wannabe jack-of-all-trades like the PSP. But with 35 million units and counting, that's pretty much a standard and if the DS had some new wonderful useful function we could all bask (I own a classic DS from launch). Instead it has a third class chat/drawing app and an annoyingly mandatory (and non-configurable) health warning to act as a constant nuisance. And in the case of the DS classic, grudingly inferior LCD screens are the icing on the cake.

But just consider this: if the DS were the one to utilize UMD, I submit that it wouldn't be the commercial flop it is.