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Nintendo 3DS Poised to Surpass First-Year Sales of Nintendo DS
November 11, in the year of our Lord 2011 -- In
its eighth month on the market, the Nintendo 3DS™ system crossed
1.65 million units sold in the U.S., according to the NPD Group,
which tracks video game sales in the United States. This
milestone puts the platform on track to surpass the first-year
total of Nintendo DS™, the best-selling game platform in U.S.
history.
The Nintendo DS system sold 2.37 million units in its first 12
months (November 2004-October 2005), with approximately 50
percent of those sales occurring in the holiday time frame. With
its first holiday season and the launches of the Super Mario 3D
Land™ and Mario Kart™ 7 games on the horizon, Nintendo 3DS is
poised to eclipse that number and establish a new benchmark for
hand-held gaming launches in the United States.
“With a massive lineup of software on the way and the first-year
sales record of Nintendo DS in its sights, Nintendo 3DS enters
its first holiday season with a full head of steam,” said Scott
Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales
& Marketing.
Other Nintendo news from the month includes:
Nintendo sold more than 675,000 combined hardware units in
October. This includes more than 250,000 units of Nintendo 3DS,
nearly 250,000 Wii™ systems and nearly 180,000 units of the
Nintendo DS family of systems.
For the year, Nintendo has sold a combined 7 million hardware
units and more than 55 million units of software have been sold
for Nintendo platforms. Both of these numbers should increase
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 previous month, demonstrated strong momentum
heading into their respective sixth and eighth holiday seasons.
In total, the two platforms have sold more than 87 million
combined hardware units and more than 540 million combined units
of software in the United States.
For more information about Nintendo, visit
http://www.nintendo.com.