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DS has sold over 50 million units in US to date

by JC Fletcher on Oct 13th 2011 7:30PM

The Nintendo DS and its variants have crossed a neat little milestone: 50 million units sold in the US, according to NPD numbers passed along by Nintendo. Seven years after launch, and seven months after the release of its successor, people are still buying the thing.

Nintendo also had some relatively good news to share about the 3DS: it moved over 260,000 units in September, bringing the post-price-drop total to 450,000 in the US. And pretty much all of those buyers also picked up The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, as it has surpassed half a million units sold in the US.

Source: Nintendo

Tags: 3ds, ds, nintendo, npd, sales, the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time

Reader Comments (43)

grats!

@Cavall
Too bad they are not really making anything new or important for the NDS anymore, everything is going to be for the 3ds, even with those awful numbers..... :(

@Hunter141072 True as that may be, I can appreciate a milestone. Look at ps2. Can't say thats shabby at all either.

I am also not a 3ds fan though, but thats my personal taste.

@Cavall Anyone know when we get the 10 free gba games

@Hunter141072
Harvest Moon: A Tale of Two Towns and Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 were released rather recently. Not to mention Professor Layton and the Last Specter is going to be released next week. It's not exactly dead. Just making a transition. (which involves lots of crap releases with hidden gold)

@Wizardsofwaverly

All the free games are crap. Their games from 15 years ago and they look and play horrible. I wanted to like my 3DS but it's just a waste of money.

@pluupy
Not to mention Solatorobo released just last month.

@blahblah55
too bad those games are more the swan song, than a real prove that nintendo wants to support a 50 million units console.....

@Hunter141072
? ... I understand that sentiment about the Wii.
But the DS had a VERY good run. From start (well, 6-8 months after its start) to finish (or nearing finish) it has had solid games.
Maybe not all of them were well advertised, nor were they for every type of gamer - but they were solid and fun nonetheless.

Maybe not fully endorsed by Nintendo, but developers definitely weren't hindered within it. ...unlike the Wii, which was strangely discouraging as much as it was encouraging to try new things for developers. Had a good run (except for the utter silence known as 2011), but these last games definitely are swan songs.

It's over 9000!!!!!!!!

@arucious
^1.95

@arucious
Nobody likes dbz I suppose :C

@arucious Nobody likes played out memes.

Good job!

I was hoping the DS meant Dark Souls :(

@Golgo13 LOL

@Golgo13

Then I bet the picture was really confusing at first.

@A Sandwich
Dark Souls 3DS?
I want.

@Golgo13
I was hoping it was Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and they just got lazy with the acronym.

I would like to see the breakdown per version. Seems like the DS Lite may have sold more than any of the others

The DS will continue to sell. The 3DS is to the DS as the Virtual Boy was to the GameBoy.

@TheBatman4141
The 3DS is perfectly good hardware with a terrible lineup. The Virtual Boy was a glaucoma test with a terrible lineup.

@TheBatman4141

Except arnt the 3DS sales numbers matching up to the DS numbers at this point in the DS' life?

I prefer the design of this over my DSi. It's neater, I think. I like the DSi's larger screen but not the shorter battery life.

@Undulation
Yeah, looking at the picture I have to agree. The original DS is a snazzy piece of kit. Especially in black.

@sigma8

Actually, that's a DS lite. The original DS is actually pretty ugly.

@Undulation
*cough*

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveynin/3415763288/in/photostream/

I believe it.

Classy system.

You know what's a classier system? The 3DS.

I love all of my DSes.

I'm gonna be THAT guy and ask how this compares with iPhone sales.

@kilroy214

Because people obviously buy 500$ phones to play short games that you could find on the internet for free. /sarcasm

Does anyone notice that Zelda sold half a million units and the 3DS sales is only up to 450,000?

@Chronoh Yes but you should see my new Zelda Coat!

@Chronoh The 450,000 does not include sales before the price drop.

True as that may be, I can appreciate a milestone. Look at ps2. Can't say thats shabby at all either.

I am also not a 3ds fan though, but thats my personal taste.

@Cavall Friggan reply glitch gets me every time.

Seeing that DS lite in the picture, I regret selling my silver one.
It had these Guitar Hero stickers that I had arranged in a pattern I was very proud of... And I sold it...
I thought I would get at least two or even three 3DS games for it, since I sold some DS games as well.
I only got one; SSFIV.
Damn you, GameStop!

@yoshi95

Never sell anything to Gamestop. You are guaranteed to get ripped off. Sell your games and consoles via amazon, ebay, craigslist, etc. You'll get a lot more.

The worst part is that I got only €50 for, while GameStop actually HAD an ongoing offer that stated that they would pay 80€ for DS lite's. They even got a poster about it in the very store I was in.
Gosh...

I absolutely hated the matte finish on my black DSi- so much in fact that I had to sell it. While it didn't collect finger prints, the texture was cringe inducing (for me). In its place I bought a DSi XL- the gloss made everything better.

How comes the 3DS doesn't look as sexy as the DSLite? :(

@Lawfer
Because it isn't the 3DSlite yet.

...but it IS far more beautiful than the original DS design. Which is nice.
(I think it looks gorgeous in white)

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