As the credit crunch looms, Nintendo is raking in all your hard-earned pennies
The Nintendo DSi has been on sale in Japan for only five days now, but already over 170,000 units have been sold to the Ninty-hungry Japanese.
Being flogged for 16,800 Yen (or £105) from Saturday the 1st of November, it was a decidedly more civilised launch than other console releases in the country, with most shoppers having wisened up to how to shop savvy, and pre-ordered or bought only.
As par for the course, shops didn't have near the amount of units desired by customers, with some stores only having enough DSi devices to cover the pre-orders. It's expected the UK launch of the DSi will be much the same, with the last incarnation of the Nintendo DS launching two years ago, and the inbuilt camera proving to be a draw for many.
Since Nintendo introduced the DS handheld at the end of 2004, the original chunky DS and DS Lite have sold 84 million units together, worldwide. No doubt the launch of the DSi, however much it disappoints us, will help shift a few more million.
Other sales figures from Nintendo are just as impressive, with more than 454 million games being sold for the DS, whereas the Wii console has sold 35 million units worldwide in just two years. The game sales are just as high for the Wii, with 230 million reportedly being shifted from the shelves. Seems we just can't get enough of Shigeru Miyamoto's games.
Link: Nintendo DS (via PC World and The Telegraph)
Source : http://www.t3.com/
