Nintendo's fiscal Year report (DS)

[StefanS]

As of March 31st

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The DS and DS Lite were the big stars for the year. In 16 months since launch, the company has managed shipments of 16.73 million worldwide units of the dual screened hardware. Total shipments for this fiscal year alone were 11.46 million units. The numbers for this fiscal year break down to 4.78 million for Japan, 2.19 million for North America and 3.76 million elsewhere.

In terms of DS software, Nintendogs was Nintendo's biggest performer, shipping over 6.55 million units worldwide. Mario Kart DS followed at 4.22 million units, with Animal Crossing coming in at 3.56 million.
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Overall, Nintendo and its third parties shipped 49.95 million pieces of DS software worldwide this fiscal year, for a total of 60.44 million units since launch. The number for this year breaks down to 21.52 million for Japan, 16.08 million for North America and 12.35 million elsewhere.

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North America seems to be DS's weakest territory. Japan sales - no surprise there - is still going strong.

 

[Corwin_B]

As of March 31st


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North America seems to be DS's weakest territory. Japan sales - no surprise there - is still going strong.

North America is still largely dominated by the GBA as far as handhelds are concerned. With Nintendo saying that they don't plan to introduce a successor to the Gameboy line right now, we will have to see if the introduction of the DS Lite brings GBA users on the DS train, or if the sub-100$ price point is absolutely necessary for that, in which case Nintendo would be wise to drop the DS Brick to 99$ ASAP.