Domestic sales of Nintendo DS exceeded 20 million units, owned by 1 in 6 Japanese people

According to a survey of Enterbrain, it is said that the domestic cumulative sales of Nintendo's handheld game machine "Nintendo DS" has exceeded 20 million units as of November 25. In other words, about the JapaneseOne in six people has a Nintendo DSIt will be calculated.

The other day I talked about GIGAZINE, but Nintendo's next generation game machine"Wii" also achieves sales forecast greatly ahead of scheduleAnd it shows Nintendo's strong performance.

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Domestic cumulative sales of Nintendo DS exceeded 20 million units! (Inspected by Enterbrain) / Famitsu.com

According to this page, it is said that the domestic cumulative sales volume of "Nintendo DS" and "Nintendo DS Lite" released on December 2, 2004 exceeded 20 million units as of November 25, 2007. Breakdown is Nintendo DS 6,449,266, Nintendo DS Lite 13.62 2806, total of 2005,000 2012 units.

Although it took 156 weeks to break through 20 million units, this is unusual as compared with 349 weeks, which took place when PlayStation 2 exceeded the domestic cumulative sales volume of 20 million units in November 2006 It was said that sales have improved by the quickness of.

IncidentallyAccording to Wikipedia, Nintendo's portable game machine "Game Boy" sold approximately 110.12 million units worldwide from the release on April 21, 1989 to the end of March 2002, and in Japan it sold approximately 32.43 million units is. As I go on, the day the Nintendo DS rewrites the Game Boy records may be close.