Over one million DSs sold in Japan and the US during March
PSP also doing well, selling 500,000 per month globally
Can anything stop the global success of DS? Well, apart from the maximum capacity of Nintendo's factories, we think not. Figures in from the US and Japan show DS remains, by far, the highest-selling console in both countries.
During March, according to the NPD sales group, 508,000 DSs were sold in America, almost twice as many as were sold of PlayStation 2 (280,000) and many more than Wii (259,000), Xbox 360 (199,000) or PlayStation 3 (130,000). To date, in the US around 1.2 million DSs have been sold in 2007.
At 180,000 sold in March, PSP sales remained pretty solid, too, though catching DS now looks a job for any forthcoming PSP2.
Top-selling DS games in the US were Diddy Kong Racing, with 189,000 sold, and Disney's Spectrobes, at 165,000.
In Japan, for the five weeks period from 26th February to the 1st April, DS was also the highest-selling console, with 686,000 sold, according to trackers Media Create. In total Nintendo has sold over two million DSs in Japan already in 2007, and over 16 million in the country since DS was first launched in 2005.
Meanwhile PSP was the third best-selling console in Japan (only just beaten by Wii), with 272,000 sold. That means across the two countries PSP is selling around 400,000 units per month (and over half a million in total when you factor in European sales), which is a pretty good performance in anyone's book.
