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| Nintendo's hand-held systems buck the holiday trend Sales figures show that Nintendo's dual-screened Nintendo DS has sold approximately 4 million units to date in North America alone. Combined with Game Boy Advance, the popular portable video game line, Nintendo now enjoys a combined U.S. market share of 78 percent. Nintendo also reports U.S. sales of Mario Kart DS, released on Nov. 14 and featuring live, global Wi-Fi competition, has topped the 1 million mark in just seven weeks. And Nintendogs, made for Nintendo DS, has surpassed sales of 1.5 million units since its U.S. launch in August. The Nintendo DS launch title Super Mario 64 DS has sold 1.3 million units in the United States alone. Other DS games that are enjoying dramatic success in the United States include WarioWare: Touched! and Advance Wars: Dual Strike. The strong U.S. performance of these titles has been mirrored in Japan, where in just more than one year from its Dec. 2, 2004, launch, Japanese consumers purchased more than 5 million Nintendo DS units. This makes the Nintendo DS the fastest-selling video game machine in the history of the Japanese video game market. In addition, Nintendogs, Animal Crossing: Wild World and the two games in the brain-training series, Brain Age and Brain Flex, achieved sales of more than 1 million units each. This is another record in Japan, as an unprecedented four titles have surpassed 1 million units sold in just more than one year from the launch of a system. In addition, Mario Kart DS and WarioWare: Touched! also are nearing the 1 million sales mark in Japan. All around the world, players have been competing on the new Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection wireless gaming service. Within seven weeks of the service launch more than 10 million game connections have been made and more than 550,000 unique visitors have connected globally. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Game News :: home page |