TWRoO on 25 August 2012
| the_dengle said: I'm pretty sure that "18 months to 10 mil worldwide" statistic for DS is very wrong. For starters, the Chartz have DS selling over 10 mil in 2005 alone, the end of which was about 14 months after launch. Anyway, handheld gaming isn't dead, but it's taking a beating. 3DS is persevering. Vita is not. |
Yeah not sure where that came from... maybe a mistype.
By the 17th month from release (though Nintendo may count it as the 18th as they work in quarters... so releasing in November is the same as releasing in October) they had shipped 17.73 million. The nearest figure I can come up with is at that same time (end of March 2006) they had shipped almost 10 million in overseas territories (ie not Japan)
