DS Lite breaks DS Lite's single-week UK sales record

by Randy Nelson { Dec 10th 2008 at 3:20PM }

Uh-oh, we've trotted out the "It Prints Money" image. That must mean DS Lite has sold well for the quadrillionth time; and it has. In this case, it beat its own record in the UK for single-week sales, set this time last year.

MCV reports that the DS Lite was the best-selling system for the week of November 29 to December 6, with UK shoppers snapping up more of the handheld than they have any other games machine in a seven-day period ever.

The site quotes GFK-ChartTrack director, Dorian Bloch, as divining, "We can now assume that if there is still some DS Lite stock in the land in the next couple of weeks, the record will go again." Go, DS Lite, go. After all, your status as the darling of hardware sales may only last until summer 2009.

Tags: ds-lite, hardware, hardware-sales, it-prints-money, record-breaking, sales

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Bagels PSN:WolfLogic @ Dec 10th 2008 3:25PM

Couldn't you @ least put an actual DS LITE on the image that you've overkill-edly used so many times? Has the guy who originally created it retired on the royalties that you and Kotaku pay him?

Thiago123 @ Dec 10th 2008 4:55PM

Yeah but it still makes me laugh. But not as much as the Pikachu "It sh!ts money!!" version.

bombtrak @ Dec 10th 2008 5:26PM

More importantly, couldn't they have 'shopped a pound coin or something into the pic instead of a US Dollar?

Haggard @ Dec 10th 2008 6:23PM

Done

[URL=http://imageshack.us][IMG]http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/8176/dsitprintsmoney490tl7.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

If by shop you mean MS paint..

Haggard @ Dec 10th 2008 6:25PM

Sorry, wrong link

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/1458/dsitprintsmoney490py3.jpg

juju187 @ Dec 10th 2008 6:44PM

change it to DSi and the picture is still relevant

Markez @ Dec 10th 2008 10:08PM

lol, nice Haggard!

Mr Khan @ Dec 10th 2008 3:29PM

Kinda scary that this thing's pushing 90 million, and the DSi should give the product legs for another couple of years at least

Fernando Rocker @ Dec 10th 2008 3:29PM

Nice... excellent for an amazing system.

Seriously, the DS, together with the 360, are the systems this current gen with the best selection of games.

I can see why people might bash other systems, but to bash the DS is wrong.

It has one of the most amazing selection of games, platformers, adventures, RPG's, point and click adventures and a lot of original touchscreen titles, and unique aplications like Elektroplankton, Jam Sessions, Korg, etc.

Kudos for Nintendo for creating an amazin system, and kudos to third partys for all the support to the little machine.

Next year seems to be very good for the Wii too...

CTC XBL-supapaypamawio PSN-ctclaw @ Dec 10th 2008 3:42PM

Wait...did you just say the 360 has the best selection of games this gen??? I never thought I'd see the day...

sk8monroe81 @ Dec 10th 2008 3:52PM

yeah on black friday i was looking for a psp or ds and really wanted to use them to play games on the road or when my gf is playing the ps3 or 360.

so i looked at the selection of games, and yes the psp offered better graphics and more options, but the game lineup on the ds was right up my alley.
for me the classics are great and rpgs too.

Joeshie @ Dec 10th 2008 4:05PM

I don't know. I've had my DS for nearly a year now and all it does is sit and collect dust. I much prefer my 360 and PC for gaming rather than the DS.

Maybe it's because I've never really been much of a handheld gamer, but whenever I go over to Best Buy and glance at the DS aisle, it seems that for every one Phoenix Wright or Advance Wars, you have 100 other My Pretty Ponies or Imagine: Babyz.

Dante G @ Dec 10th 2008 4:25PM

That's ok Joeshie. Little kids play with the DS too.

On other news... I just started playing Dragon Ball Origins. Man, I so wanted a Dragon ball game just like this one 15 years ago. Good thing I'm still young at heart :) And IMO Dragon Ball > Dragon Ball Z.

Levi @ Dec 10th 2008 5:37PM

Me too Fernando. I just picked up a 360, and I'm surprised that the selection of games on the 360 is more than just 1st person shooters.

And Joeshie, c'mon! Put a little love into your DS! I've got gigantic meat paws, and I'm able to rock the system. Who cares about all the Ubisoft Imagine series games or all of the suduku master games you see at Best Buy? Don't you ever check out Metacritic or shop online? All of the top 100 games for the DS on Metacritic are really good (Respective to their genre of course. You don't strike me as a guy who would get a kick out of Nintendogs). And the best part is that you can find most of them used for less than $20. I don't usually buy a DS game for more than $15, and I have a library of almost 30 games. Games can be found so cheap now, I don't mind purchasing something that I might not like.

juju187 @ Dec 10th 2008 6:46PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgWABKQpvqA
to all new 360 owners welcome to the party...

joerendous @ Dec 10th 2008 3:41PM

i love that image. never fails to get a chuckle out of me.

Billy @ Dec 10th 2008 4:09PM

I was just going to post the same thing :)

It's one of my favorite pictures, definitely.

Tb4M @ Dec 10th 2008 4:20PM

Picture of the year.

deaftly @ Dec 10th 2008 4:51PM

This ones pretty good too

http://assopreafita.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/it-prints-money-2.gif

Kye says: skibidibap debap doo wap @ Dec 11th 2008 5:11AM

Deaftly, nice pic. It would be all the more humourous if the coin counter showed infinity.

Levi @ Dec 10th 2008 4:10PM

I'm sorry to post something completely unrelated, but I'm trying out a G1...

CTC XBL-supapaypamawio PSN-ctclaw @ Dec 10th 2008 4:31PM

DDAAMMNNN you so cooo!

jorojoserojas @ Dec 10th 2008 6:13PM

It's awesome, ain't it? Not quite an iPhone, but it's definitely the best phone T-Mobile has.

juju187 @ Dec 10th 2008 6:50PM

tell me how the blackberry storm is and I'll care...

Levi @ Dec 10th 2008 7:09PM

The Blackberry Storm's screenbutton seems really annoying judging from the dummy model I played with. I can't say I've tried the actual thing, but it's pretty easy to imagine how it feels to type on it compared to the iPhone that I'm used to. You have to literally click the screen like a big mouse button... just pick one up and try it.

The G1, from what I could tell, is freakin awesome. The web browser seemed to load pages slower, and the zooming on the iPhone Safari can't be beat, but due to the amount that Safari F#@#ING CRASHES ALL THE TIME, a browser that comes as close as it does is a welcome change (considering it, too, doesn't crash all the time).

I quite literally posted that comment earlier because I frequently try to comment on both www.Joystiq.com and i.joystiq.com from my iPhone, and neither work more than 50% of the time. I'll type out this long ass brilliant comment, hit submit, and *poof* it's gone. Doesn't post to the website, doesn't say it sent me an e-mail, can't retrieve the comment text with the back button (because mobile safari refreshes every time you press back!). Pain in the ass.

If AT&T would go back on their statement and start supporting Android, I'd consider a G1, though I'd really want a phone with a 3.5mm headphone jack.

Oh yeah, and to say something a bit on-topic, I got rid of my DS and kept my PSP, because I jsut don't like the games on the DS. I may have printed some money for Nintendo, but then printed some more money for Gamestop when I traded it in towards Rock Band. It was a good trade that I don't regret.