Nintendo: 3DS Expected To Outperform DS's First-year Sales In US

Nintendo 3DS Poised to Surpass First-Year Sales of Nintendo DS

In its eighth month on the market, the Nintendo 3DS™ network crossed 1.65 million units sole in the U.S., according to the NPD Group, that marks video diversion sales in the United States. This miracle puts the stage on follow to transcend the first-year complete of Nintendo DS™, the best-selling diversion stage in U.S. history.

The Nintendo DS network sole 2.37 million units in its initial 12 months (November 2004-October 2005), with roughly 50 percent of the sales occurring in the legal holiday time frame. With its initial legal holiday period and the launches of the Super Mario 3D Land™ and Mario Kart™ 7 games on the horizon, Nintendo 3DS is staid to obscure that number and settle a new benchmark for hand-held gaming launches in the United States.

"With a large lineup of program on the way and the first-year sales record of Nintendo DS in its sights, Nintendo 3DS enters its initial legal holiday period with a full head of steam," mentioned Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America's senior manager clamp boss of Sales Marketing.

Other Nintendo headlines from the month includes:

Nintendo sole more than 675,000 amalgamated hardware units in October. This includes more than 250,000 units of Nintendo 3DS, scarcely 250,000 Wii™ systems and scarcely 180,000 units of the Nintendo DS family of systems.
For the year, Nintendo has sole a amalgamated 7 million hardware units and more than 55 million units of program have been sole for Nintendo platforms. Both of these figures should enlarge with the Nov. 20 launch of The Legend of Zelda™: Skyward Sword for Wii.
Both Wii, up 8 percent year over year, and Nintendo DS, up 23 percent over the formerly month, demonstrated burly movement streamer in to their particular sixth and eighth legal holiday seasons. In total, the two platforms have sole more than 87 million amalgamated hardware units and more than 540 million amalgamated units of program in the United States.
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