DS Sells Over 20 Million Units Worldwide >

	2006/07/24 10:36:29: Posted by DM
	While other consoles are having issues upon issues, the little handheld that could, the Nintendo DS, keeps on trucking. Nintendo has now announced that sales of the Nintendo DS have exceeded 20 million units worldwide. This is quite an impressive number for a unit that has been available only since November 2004. Click read more for the full press info, and congrats Nintendo! PRESS RELEASE Nintendo delivers on its promise to bring video gaming to the masses. In less than two years since its Nov. 21, 2004 launch, Nintendo has sold more than 21 million Nintendo DS™ systems worldwide. By comparison, Apple® shipped one million of its ever-popular iPod® music players in its first 19 months. The rate of Nintendo DS units being sold equates to 23 systems per minute – that's nearly one every two seconds – non-stop since launch. "We're thrilled to be announcing this milestone today," says George Harrison, Nintendo of America's senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications, "especially since Nintendo DS was North America's top-selling video game system of any type in June. We attribute this success to Nintendo's overall strategy of offering something for everyone – from five-year-olds caring for their Nintendogs to 65-year-olds tuning their mental agility with Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day." Nintendo recently launched the new version of its popular portable system, DS Lite, featuring a smaller profile and more brilliant display. Beyond appealing attributes such as dual screens, a touch screen, a microphone and seamless Wi-Fi play, DS popularity also is being propelled by a unique mix of software that appeals equally to mainstream players and those new to the category. The Touch Generations line of fun and accessible games for all ages and skill sets features the red-hot Brain Age™: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day and Big Brain Academy™, as well as the enormously popular and innovative Nintendogs™. Nintendo DS sales success is also supported by video gaming sensations, New Super Mario Bros.® and Animal Crossing®: Wild World. To satiate the video gaming palates of the 21 million Nintendo DS owners worldwide, Nintendo continues to increase its software offerings with Star Fox® Command, Mario vs. Donkey Kong™ 2: March of the Minis, Clubhouse Games™ and more games launching in the months ahead. Nintendo DS and DS Lite owners currently enjoy more than 130 Nintendo DS software titles – and 880 Game Boy® Advance software titles in single play mode – all playable on their portable DS systems.
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Impressive! But isn't Nintendo also coming out with another Gameboy? I wonder how that'll go.

and i own 2 of them

Nah its gona be a SUPER DUPER LITE with a new STRING in a NEW COLOUR...

WITH several more RE-LAUNCHeS...

YAY!!!

COLLAPSES WITH EXICTMENT...

Lol @ cryix

But seriously The psp has shipped 17.5 million units, yet nintendo fanboys are incredibly proud that they are beating psp by around only 5 million units (factoring in that shipped is not sold, but still close)

You would think the handheld war was over, and the psp was destroyed worst then ps2 vs gc and xbox, alas nintendo fans use any evidence to prove wii will win the console war.

It is something to be pround b/c my psp is sitting in my room collecting dust :/ due to no good games out (Except tekken)

Well it may for you but not for most people.

In gamespot there are 30 psp games with over 8.0 score

There are only 22 ds games with over 8.0 score.

Accordidng to gaming rankings there are 23 psp games with over 80%, and there are 22 ds games with over 80%.

Shows that pps is infact gaining in good games, if not the one killer app.

The good ds stuff is with all the crazy japanese content.

DS just keeps gaining momentum.

Yeah I don't own either one but I know I'd never buy a PSP. For the same money I could buy a Wii and several games that are actually unique and fun. Or I could buy a Wii! I'm definitely surprised that PSP isn't too far behind, but something tells me the system is only going to lose momentum while DS will gain it.

EDIT: I meant a DS and several games. Not a Wii.

Scores don't mean shit b/c they are only opinions. I have liked many games that gamespot gave low scores to and I know there are alot of people like me that think the same way. Just look at 50 cent bulletproof which is really is a garbage game and got a low score but sold over a million copies.

wow. thats what i call selleing that product.