DS could put together a long string of 500K months... It will need to hit the mark in March based just on momentum, and then it should have no trouble reaching it in April and May with Pokemon out...
In Japan, its like 12 or 13 straight months with 500K units... If DS starts doing that in the other regions, it can become the best-selling hardware of all time...
Edit: VGChartz doesn't have handheld software numbers up for the period, but in 2003 when Ruby/Sapphire launched, GBA hardware went from 284K in Jan and to 320K in Feb, to 774K in March and 516K in April, bringing GBA's total to 15.6 million. DS hardware just hit 11 million, but did 575K in Feb.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
