Nintendo handheld sails past 10 million mark – robbing PS2 of 'biggest ever console' title
Nintendo DS has become the biggest-selling games hardware in UK chart history, surpassing 10 million units sold, MCV can reveal.
The device hit the milestone in week 47 of this year according to GfK-ChartTrack data, taking it past the record held by Sony’s PS2.
UK unit sales of PS2 stand at 10.02 million to date, whilst DS has already hit 10.05 million – with a bountiful Christmas period yet to finish.
DS has been on the UK market for just four years, eight months, having launched in March 2005. PlayStation 2 launched nine years ago in November 2000.
Nintendo DS has sold at a rate of over 5,700 consoles per day in the UK, where almost one in six people own one of the handhelds.
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MCV revealed last week that Nintendo Wii had hit six million UK unit sales – becoming the fastest-selling home console in UK history.
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Woo!
Man! Imagine how many it could have sold if it hadn't been killed by piracy!
Erm....
Erm, if there's one sector that piracy doesn't harm it's hardware. I mean, you can't pirate a console. And you can't play pirated software without one.
Idiot...
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