happydolphin on 11 December 2012
| UncleScrooge said: It took off at different times in different parts of the world. Japan: December 2005. In early 2005 the PSP was outselling the DS. Then Jump Superstars and Nintendogs were released and the DS sold better. In late 2005 the Mario Kart DS + Animal Crossing combo pushed the DS into stratosphere. It sold 600k units in a single week, the highest non-launch-week sales of any console ever. The DS Lite launch in early 2006 pushed it even higher. America: Summer 2006. Around that time both the DS Lite and Super Mario Bros. released and sales increased a lot. They increased even more later on but that was the start of the DS explosion in the US. Europe: There's no clear date. Sales just kept going up in Europe for years. Europe also gobbled up Brain Training (unlike the US). It just kept growing. Hope that helped and I hope I got everything right. |
Great summary of it.
