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The Nintendo DS (codenamed Nitro[1]) is Nintendo's "third pillar," supplementing the Game Boy Advance. It competes with Sony's Playstation Portable in the seventh generation of video games. It was succeeded by the Nintendo 3DS in February 2011.

Nintendo DS sales figures[]

Main article: Seventh generation of video games

During the week of November 18 to November 24, Nintendo of America set a new Nintendo sales record by selling over 653,000 DS units in one week, breaking the previous record held by the Game Boy Advance, which sold 600,000 units.

In October of 2008 Nintendo officially announced that they had sold 84 million units, thus surpassing the total sales of the Game Boy Advance (81 million). The release of the Nintendo DSi and DSi XL boosted the sales even further. Also during October Nintendo announced that their hit Nintendogs for the DS had sold over 20 million units worldwide.

Nintendo DS sales figures (based on official financial reports)
Date Americas sales Japan sales Other sales Quarterly sales Total sales Source
Quarter 3 (ending Dec 31, 2004) 1.36 1.45 0.03 2.84 2.84 [4]
Quarter 4 (ending Mar 31, 2005) 0.83 0.67 0.92 2.43 5.27 [5]
2005 fiscal year (ending Mar 31, 2005) 2.19 2.12 0.95 5.27 5.27 million [6]
Quarter 1 (ending Jun 30, 2005) 1.38 6.65 [7]
Quarter 2 (ending Sep 30, 2005) 2.18 8.83 [8]
Quarter 3 (ending Dec 31, 2005) 1.75 2.08 1.76 5.60 14.43 [9]
Quarter 4 (ending Mar 31, 2006) 0.49 1.20 0.61 2.30 16.73 [10]

[11]

2006 fiscal year (ending Mar 31, 2006) 2.92 4.78 3.76 11.46 16.73 million [12]
Quarter 1 (ending Jun 30, 2006) 0.78 2.34 1.42 4.54 21.27 [13]

[14]

Quarter 2 (ending Sep 30, 2006) 1.45 2.27 1.67 5.55 26.82 [15]

[16]

Quarter 3 (ending Dec 31, 2006) 2.66 2.92 3.20 8.79 35.61 [17]

[18]

Quarter 4 (ending Mar 31, 2007) 1.57 1.59 1.52 4.68 40.29 [19]

[20]

2007 fiscal year sales (ending Mar 31, 2007) 6.63 9.12 7.81 23.56 40.29 million [21]
Quarter 1 (ending Jun 30, 2007) 2.39 2.08 2.5 6.98 47.27 [22]
Quarter 2 (ending Sep 30, 2007) 1.93 1.6 2.85 6.37 53.64 [23]

[24][25]

Quarter 3 (ending Dec 31, 2007) 4.12 1.95 5.07 11.14 64.78 [26]

[27]

Quarter 4 (ending Mar 31, 2008) 2.21 0.72 2.88 5.82 70.6 [28]

[29]

2008 fiscal year sales (ending Mar 31, 2008) 10.65 6.35 13.31 30.31 70.6 million [30]
Quarter 1 (ending June 30, 2008) 2.71 0.58 3.65 6.94 77.54 [31]
Quarter 2 (ending Sep 30, 2008) 2.53 0.74 3.52 6.79 84.33 [32]
Quarter 3 (ending Dec 31, 2008) 4.30 1.96 5.63 11.89 96.22 [33]
Quarter 4 (ending Mar 31, 2009) 2.52 0.73 2.31 5.56 101.78 [34]
2009 fiscal year sales (ending Mar 31, 2009) 12.07 4.01 15.11 31.18 101.78 million [35]
Quarter 1 (ending June 30, 2009) 2.51 0.61 2.85 5.97 107.75 [36]
Quarter 2 (ending Sept 30, 2009)
Quarter 3 (ending Dec 31, 2009)
Quarter 4 (ending March 30, 2010)
2010 fiscal year (ending Mar 31, 2010)
Totals 36.97 27.00 43.87 - 107.75 million [37]



DS market penetration

Market penetration.

Best-selling DS games[]

(As of January 2009)

  • New Super Mario Bros. (30.80 million) (March 2020)
  • Nintendogs (23.96 million) (March 2020)
  • Mario Kart DS (23.60 million) (March 2020)
  • Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! (19.01 million) (March 2020)
  • Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (17.67 million) (March 2020)
  • Pokémon Black and White (15.64 million) (March 2020)
  • Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day! (14.88 million) (March 2020)
  • Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver (12.72 million) (March 2020)
  • Animal Crossing: Wild World (11.75 million) (March 2020)
  • Super Mario 64 DS (11.06 million) (March 2020)
  • Big Brain Academy (5.01 million)
  • Mario Party DS (4.73 million)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (4.13 million)
  • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness (4.12 million)
  • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team (3.08 million)
  • Yoshi's Island DS (2.91 million)
  • English Training: Have Fun Improving Your Skills! (2.86 million)
  • Pokémon Ranger (2.7 million)
  • Cooking Mama (2.627 million approximately: 1 million in US,[115] 1 million in Europe,[116] 62,660 in Japan)[117]
  • Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day (2.52 million)
  • Pokémon Platinum (2.231 million in Japan)[118]
  • WarioWare: Touched! (2.15 million)
  • Tetris DS (2.05 million)
  • Final Fantasy III (2 million approximately: 1.06 million in Japan, 460,000 in North America,[119] and 480,000 in Europe)[120]
  • Common Sense Training (1.65 million in Japan)
  • Kirby: Squeak Squad (1.6 million)[83]
  • Rhythm Heaven (1.568 million in Japan)[121]
  • Professor Layton and the Curious Village (1.53 million shipped approximately: 830,000 shipped in North America, Europe and Korea,[122] 700,000 shipped in Japan)[123]
  • Mario Hoops 3-on-3 (1.5 million)
  • Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (1.47 million in Japan)
  • Dragon Quest IV (1.42 million)[124]
  • Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (1.39 million)
  • Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (1.24 million)
  • Dragon Quest V (1,228,014 in Japan)[125]
  • High School Musical: Makin' the Cut! (1.2 million in North America and Western Europe)[126]
  • Super Princess Peach (1.15 million)
  • Love and Berry DS Collection (1.12 million in Japan)[127]
  • Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop (1.12 million in Japan)
  • Diddy Kong Racing DS (1.04 million)
  • Final Fantasy IV (1.04 million)[124]
  • Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (1.04 million approximately: 540,000 in Japan,[120] 220,000 in North America,[120] 280,000 in Europe)
  • Kirby Super Star Ultra (1.021 million in Japan)
  • Spectrobes (1 million shipped)

Total Nintendo DS games sold as of September 30, 2008: 454.63 million.

Best selling Nintendo DS games in Japan (source)[]

(As of April 2009)

  1. Pokémon Diamond / Pearl - 5,624,430
  2. New Super Mario Bros. - 5,406,786
  3. Animal Crossing: Wild World - 4,976,041
  4. Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day - 4,967,131
  5. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day - 3,750,890
  6. Mario Kart DS - 3,355,781
  7. Pokémon Platinum - 2,361,196
  8. English Training: Have Fun Improving Your Skills - 2,051,037
  9. Nintendogs (Labrador, Dachshund, Chihuahua) - 1,850,984
  10. Mario Party DS - 1,832,265

Sales figures tidbits[]

Nds worldwide sales

Worldwide sales of Nintendo DS (100 million as of March 2009).

  • Worldwide:
    • March 2009: 100 million [38]
  • United States:
    • Thanksgiving 2007: 653,000 units (breaking Nintendo's previous record of 600,000 set by the GBA in 2005)[39]
    • January 2008: 17.65m [40]
  • Europe:
    • January 2009: 31.0 million (11.2m in 2008) [41]
  • United Kingdom
    • Launch: 87,000 [42]
    • September 2007: 3.8 million [43]
    • January 2008: 5.4 million [44]
    • September 2008: 7.1 million [45]
    • January 2009: 8.8 million [46]
  • France
    • 2.54 million by September 2007 [47]
    • 10.5 million by January 2016 [2]
  • Australia:
    • 55 weeks: 200,000 [48]
    • July 2008: 1.2 million [49]
    • November 2008: 1.5 million [50]
    • April 2009: 30,000 DSi (11 days) [51]
    • May 2009: 2.0 million [52]
  • Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark)
    • January 2009: 950,000 [53]

Charts[]

External links[]

Seventh generation of video games
Wii · Nintendo DS · Xbox 360 · PlayStation 3 · PlayStation Portable
  1. ↑ http://www.gamesradar.com/f/console-codenames-before-they-were-famous/a-2008081310145746097/p-2
  2. ↑ http://www.leparisien.fr/economie/business/nintendo-france-la-console-de-jeux-a-encore-de-beaux-jours-devant-elle-18-04-2016-5723625.php#xtref=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FGMOVm1M2bN
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