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divider December 2, 2008 DSi Sales Top 500,000 In Japan DSi Sales Top 500,000 In Japan Nintendo's DSi has sold 535,379 units in Japan since the new hardware launched on November 1st, despite constrained supply in its first weeks of availability, according to a report from media and ...
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DSi Sells Over 500k in Japan
Evil Avatar - News Items —
... Even though everyone in Japan already owns at least 2 Nintendo DSes, the newest model, the DSi has managed to sell over 500k units in the first month of release. Gamasutra has the news: ...
DSi sales surpass 500K in Japan
Joystiq —
... has sold 535,379 units in Japan since its November 1 launch, according to a report from Enterbrain. The latest cog in the company's perpetual money-making machine was reportedly short on supply for the first few weeks, which most readers should know by now is the modus operandi. To date, the DS lineup has sold over 24 million in Japan since launching December 2004. The not-so-hack proof DSi should be launching worldwide by Summer 2009. [Via Gamasutra] DSi sales surpass 500K in Japan originally appeared on Joystiq on ...
Nintendo DSi Hits Half Million Mark
G4 TV - TheFeed —
It's been a great year so far for Nintendo.
Their DSi has sold a little over 500,000 units in Japan alone since its release in November 2008.
The entire DS platform has done equally impressive numbers outside of Japan, selling 27.63 million units in the U.S. and 32.99 million in other remaining territories worldwide since its release in 2004.
Nintendo says the DSi will probably come to the U.S. after April 2009.
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Bruce On Games —
... Half a million Nintendo DSis sell in one month in Japan. It looks like Nintendo have learned from what Apple do with the iPod. Planned obsolescence with users upgrading every time a new model comes out. ...
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Computer And Video Games 12/2/2008
Over half a million redesigned handhelds in the wild.
Every human in Japan bought 18 DS Lites each, it seemed. So who the hell will get a DSi? A whooping 535,379 people, that's who. Click here to read the full article
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