Nintendo DS experiences best sales week, evar

Posted Dec 13, 2006 at 4:40PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Nintendo DS Tags: Europe, Nintendo of Europe

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The people over at Nintendo must all be "walking on sunshine" right now as their lovely little DS Lites have just achieved an enormous feat: breaking the record for the most number of video game consoles ever sold in a span of only seven days. You can feel the love right there.

This is all coming as a sweet add-on to the fact that the recently-launched Wii has been performing well since its release in U.S and in Europe. As a kicker to this success, figures have recently shown that in the past week alone, some 515,000 units of DS Lites were sold across Europe. That's the highest number that any of Nintendo's consoles has ever achieved in a week, and as mentioned above, it is also the most that ANY console has ever sold in a single week.

Since it was launched in Europe last March of 2005, up to 8.5 million DS Lites have already been sold, and that number is expected to climb even higher especially this Holiday season, with the pink DS Lite being a popular item of choice for a lot of shoppers.

How sweet it is, indeed.

Via GamesIndustry.biz

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# .. — Guest 2006-12-13 22:37

DS lite is better than PSP and the sales show it..

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# Shortages — Guest 2006-12-13 23:02

I have to wonder how much better the sales could be, in the UK at least loads of places are sold out of DS Lites completely.

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# psp is 4 zombies — Guest 2006-12-14 00:51

I just bought a DS here in belgium, lol ! Go Nintendo

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# sux — Guest 2006-12-14 09:58

ds is lame

why do u need 2 screens

any what is with the touch screen it sucks horrible

psp rules u know it

well the pc rules cuz it is the best u can get

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# r0x — GunDag 2006-12-14 10:40

I contributed to last weeks sales, here in Norway.



The first game I bought for my DS lite white was Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.



TEH BOMB!!!

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# Not surprised — Guest 2006-12-14 12:02

My DS is my favourite handheld console to date. The games, while perhaps not as innovative as touted, are fun and challenging. The touch screen has also made the return of classic adventure games possible, and words fail to describe how much I like it.

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