DS hits 100 million software sales in Japan
Friday, April 18th, 2008 at 2:57pm by Jake
Japanese sales tracker Media Create has announced 100 million units of DS software have been sold in Japan since launch. 100 million in almost three and a half years! That’s quite a feat when you compare software sales to Japan’s PS2 power house which took four years and three months to hit the 100 million software mark. Twenty one of the 922 DS games released have sold more than 1 million units.
Nintendo’s Top Ten DS games in Japan
New Super Mario Bros – 5,174,163 units
Brain Age 2 – 4,835,159 units
Animal Crossing DS – 4,693,662 units
Brain Age – 3,771,440 units
Mario Kart DS – 3,042,753 units
Pokemon Diamond – 3,005,505 units
Pokemon Pearl – 2,490,564 units
English Training DS – 2,216,322 units
Mario Party DS – 1,706,506 units
Big Brain Academy – 1,654,285 units
Will the juggernaut ever slow?
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April 18th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
100mil in 3.5 years.. That is pretty amazing, but the other number you mentioned – 21 of 922 games hitting a million. That isn’t such an impressive number. Still, congrats to the DS! May you continue kicking Sony and MS butt for a long time to come lol
April 18th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
LOL!! that gif is awesome!
April 18th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
The DS is just great.
It is the most inovative, fun Nintendo system to date.
Maybe the Wii will catch up, but so far the DS owns it.
April 18th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Those 21 are just in Japan. That’s not bad. There would be many more million sellers if you considered worldwide sales.
April 18th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
‘Only’ 35, I believe. Most of the million sellers in Japan are million sellers everywhere.
April 18th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Will the juggernaut ever slow? NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 19th, 2008 at 1:38 am
jeeezuz, thats insano.
April 20th, 2008 at 5:02 am
Jamie, if you think 21 million sellers in three and a half years is not so impressive…well you have just lost your mind.
April 26th, 2008 at 5:28 am
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