The Nintendo DS and DS Lite have reached a combined sales of 50 million, an impressive milestone for any product. It’s predecessor, Nintendo’s popular Game Boy took 16 years to sell 119 million units; DS took only 3 years to reach 50 million. The Japanese were the most avid fans of the DS buying 20 million of them. Sony’s PlayStation Portable, DS’s closest rival, has sold 25 million so far and has recently surpassed DS on weekly sales having been boosted by its new slim identity and a new game titled “Crisis Core” of added to its line up.
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September 30th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
[...] Evan Blass wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe Nintendo DS and DS Lite have reached a combined sales of 50 million, an impressive milestone for any product. It’s predecessor, Nintendo’s popular Game Boy took 16 years to sell 119 million units; DS took only 3 years to reach 50 … [...]
October 1st, 2007 at 3:07 pm
My console of choise is PSP. It’s far better than DS and has a more interesting games!
May 7th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
[...] has been gaining ground on DS in Japan even though it will take PSP some time yet to beat the DS?s 50 million lifetime sales. As for me, there?s not much I?d like to improve on the DS except the screen size and a slimmer [...]
June 18th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
[...] gaining ground on DS in Japan even though it will take PSP some time yet to beat the DS’s 50 million lifetime sales. As for me, there’s not much I’d like to improve on the DS except the screen size and a [...]