Nintendo DSi Passes Million in 2 Months

Famitsu and Enterbrain have revealed that Nintendo's new DSi model has now surpassed sales of one million in just two months despite initial doubters believing that the third revision of the DS hardware would be dismissed by the masses for excluding the GBA slot and adding what some deemed 'pointless' additions such as the two cameras and media playback features.

Since launching back on 1st November in Japan, the Nintendo DSi's sales are roughly 1,062,416 units as of 21st December. For reference purposes, the original Nintendo DS, which was released on 2nd December back in 2004 has sold 6,449,206 units, whilst the Nintendo DS Lite, which hit on 2nd March, 2006 has cruised to phenomenal sales of 17,348,252 units. This brings the total DS family sales to an astonishing 24,859,874 with the biggest sales weeks yet to come in the Land of the Rising Sun.

No wonder Nintendo is delaying the release of the DSi in the US and Europe until around Autumn 2009, since all stock needs to be pumped into Japan right now where the DS Lite had started to slow down slightly, slipped behind the revived PlayStation Portable, which had been boosted by the likes of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Monster Hunter Portable 2G and the updated PSP-2000 and PSP-3000 models.