
Nintendo began a tour de force on Monday, January 22, when they announced that the DS had sold a total of 10 million units in Europe, since its May 2005 debut on the old continent. This figure also includes the redesinged DS Lite that came out in June 2006, and just in December alone, Nintendo managed to sell some 1.7 million DS units across Europe. All in all, Nintendo says it's the fastest console to reach the 10 million mark and the best-selling handheld in history, in the territory.
To further pimp their announcement, Nintendo also updated their software sales figures, which now include over 5 million Nintendogs (meaning half of the DS owners in Europe also bought this game!), topping not only North America, but even Japan. Furthermore, Brain Age so far sold 2 million copies (since its June 2006 release), and plenty more first-party titles reached the 1 million mark as well - including New Super Mario Bros., Super Mario 64 DS, Mario Kart DS, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon and Animal Crossing: Wild World.
Then, just a few days later, Nintendo returned with the annoucement that the DS also reached the 10 million mark in total units units sold across North and South America. The handheld console made its American debut back in November 2004, and last month the DS sold 1.6 million units in the US.
Nintendo also provided the following updated DS line-up in North America during Q1 2007:
January
- Hotel Dusk: Room 215
- Arthur & the Invisibles
- Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney Justice for All
- Fossil League DTC
February
- Diddy Kong Racing DS
- Lunar Knights
- F24 Stealth Fighter
- Disney's Kim Possible: Global Gemini
- Meteos: Disney Magic
- Winning Eleven Pro Evolution Soccer 2007
- Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja
March
- Wario: Master of Disguise
- Custom Robo Arena
- Disney's Herbie: Rescue Rally
- Disney's Meet the Robinsons
- Spectrobes
- Steel Horizon
- Cake Mania
- Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
- TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) Moving on to the Wii front, Nintendo's latest financial report boasts some pretty amazing numbers in itself: 4 million Wii units manufactured by the end of 2006 - during which time they managed to deliver and sell 3.19 million Wiis - as well as the following:
- During the first nine months of the current fiscal year, consolidated worldwide shipments of 19 software titles for Nintendo platforms reached or surpassed 1 million units. These include three Wii titles, 13 Nintendo DS titles and three Game Boy Advance titles.
- Nearly 1.4 million Wii hardware systems have connected to the Internet worldwide (as of 1/24/07)
- Approximately 1.5 million Virtual Console games have been downloaded and sold to customers worldwide (as of 1/24/07)
- More than 3.5 million unique users have enjoyed game play on Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection for Nintendo DS, with far more than 100 million connections (as of 1/24/07) Need I really draw any conclusion?...




