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NPD April 2009: Nintendo Banks on DS, Sells Over a Million Units

by Rangebar Merani on May 15, 2009 at 9:26 am

No joke people! Nintendo has sold over a million DS handhelds in the United States in April alone. A remarkable month for the video game guru, with a combined 1.04 million DSi and DS Lite units sold.

The DSi sold more than 827,000 units in April, while the DS Lite pulled 215,000 units. These amazing numbers for April bring the count of Nintendo DS handhelds sold in the U.S. to over 30 million units. No doubt about it, Nintendo is still on top.

Here’s the full list of U.S. NPD April 2009 numbers:

Hardware

  1. Nintendo DS – 1.04M
  2. Wii – 340K
  3. Xbox 360 – 175K
  4. PlayStation 2 – 172K
  5. PlayStation 3 – 127K
  6. PSP – 116K

Software

  1. Wii Fit- 471K
  2. Pokemon Platinum DS – 433K
  3. Mario Kart Wii- 210K
  4. Wii Play – 170K
  5. The Godfather II (360) – 155K
  6. Resident Evil 5 (360) – 122K
  7. New Super Mario Bros. (DS) – 119K
  8. Mario Kart DS – 112K
  9. Guitar Hero Aerosmith (360) – 110K
  10. The Godfather II (PS3) – 91K

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