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Nintendo DSiNintendo has just dropped us a line with its latest DS milestone. The gaming giant now says it’s sold 10million of the handhelds in the UK alone. That’s an impressive stat in a country with a population of 60million. Do one in six people really own a Nintendo DS?

The first Nintendo DS went on 11 March 2005, and over the space for four and half years and two more iterations, the DS Lite and DSi, it’s racked up sales in the eight figures, according to figures released by GfK Chart-Track today.

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That’s a stunning statistic, making the Nintendo DS the best selling games console ever in the UK, but it almost seems too good to be true. Granted, some people may own a DS and a DS Lite or DSi, skewing the stats, but even so, it seems a huge amount.

What do you reckon? Do one in six of your mates own a DS? Let us know what you think.

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  • Stewart

    Seems Nintendo have been a bit naughty, bundling everything that’s got “DS” written on it, as being the same..

    Clearly if Sony did that with Playstation, it would vastly eclipse those numbers… How about how the media like to seperate out PSP GO sales from regular PSP numbers? But when it suits them lump all the DS ones together? Do they think we are all morons that can’t see what is going on?>

  • David

    The conclusion from these figures is meaningless! Don’t forget that a lot of these will be for kids that have 2 or 3 replacement units, as the hinge keeps breaking on the DS lite and DSi’s. Some of my sons friends have 5 or 6 DS variants because the plastics keep on breaking. Even I have just succumbed to replacing my sons 2yr old DS Lite with a DSi because of a broken hinge, so even he effectively has 3!

    • http://www.electricpig.co.uk Ben Sillis

      Interesting point David! I didn’t realise replacements were quite so common place, but then I don’t go twisting hinges off like a kid. That would surely skew the stats.

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