Nintendo has reached an amazing milestone today! Nintendo is reporting that 21 million, count ‘em, 21 MILLION DS’s sold in less than 20 months! That’s an average of a DS being sold every 2 seconds since it’s launch in November 2004.

I’m personally not surprised with the success of the DS. It just goes to show that Nintendo’s new strategy of broadening the market is paying off. The Big N also posted its predictions for the Wii over the next fiscal year. Wii is expected to sell through 6 million before the end of March 2007. I think that is about right. They’ll probably only produce around that many because they’ll all sell out. Can’t wait to get my hands on one!

June – US hardware #s (avg. per week):

1. NDS ~ 593,000 (118,600)
2. PS2 ~ 312,000 (62,400)
3. 360 ~ 277,000 (55,400)
4. PSP ~ 221,000 (44,200)
5. GBA ~ 189,000 (37,800)
6. NGC ~ 51,000 (10,200)
7. XBX ~ 24,000 (4,800)

June – US software #s (more available at request):

New Super Mario Bros. (NDS) – 453,195
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PS2) ~ 400,000
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day (NDS) – 205,868
NFL Head Coach (PS2/XBX) ~ 117,000
Over the Hedge (PS2/XBX/NGC) ~ 283,000
Cars (PS2) > 180,000
X-Men: The Official Game (PS2/XBX/NGC) ~ 172k
Hitman: Blood Money (360) – 167,540
Cars (GBA) > 160,000
FIFA World Cup 2006 (PS2) > 150,000
Big Brain Academy (NDS) – 140,942
Nintendogs (NDS) all 3 versions combined – 110,610
Hitman: Blood Money (PS2) > 100,000
Cars (NGC) > 100,000
God of War (PS2) > 100,000
Guitar Hero bundle (PS2) > 100,000
Kingdom Hearts II (PS2) > 100,000
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (360) both versions combined – 85,724
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter – 77,378
Cars (NDS) – 72,766
FIFA World Cup 2006 (360) – 69,399
Mario Kart DS (NDS) – 66,849
Fight Night Round 3 (360) – 61,852
Animal Crossing: Wild World (NDS) – 60,869
Table Tennis (360) – 59,357
MotoGP 2006 (360) – 58,716
Metroid Prime Hunters (NDS) – 57,308
Call of Duty 2 (360) – 54,410
Cars (PSP) – 53,476
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PSP) – 45,933
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (360) – 44,615
Tetris (NDS) – 44,536
Monster Hunter: Freedom (PSP) – 44,204
Over the Hedge (NDS) – 42,806
MLB 06: The Show (PSP) – 42,216
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – 306

looks like nintendo and sqaure are in bed together once again :D because they have just announced that mario hoops will have additional characters. they are (clockwise from top left) moogle, white mage, ninja, black mage, and a cactuar named sabotender all from the final fantasy world.

1. Final Fantasy III (Nintendo DS/Enix Public garden) (–)
2. Final Fantasy XIII (Playstation 3/Enix Public garden) (–)
3. Biohazard 5 (Playstation 3/Capcom) (+1)
4. Metal GEAR Solid 4 (Playstation 3/Konami) (+1)
5. Summon Night 4 (Playstation 2/Banpresto) (+2)
6. Kamaitachi No Yoru 3 (Playstation 2/Sega) (–)
7. Seiken Densetsu 4 (Playstation 2/Enix Public garden) (+6)
8. Blue Dragon (Xbox 360/Microsoft) (–)
9. Super Robot Wars OG (Playstation 2/Banpresto) (- 2)
10. Sengoku Basara 2 (Playstation 2/Capcom) (- 1)
11. Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii/Nintendo) (+1)
12. Pokémon Diamond & Pearl (Nintendo DS/Nintendo) (+2)
13. Gyakuten Saiban 4 (Nintendo DS/Capcom) (- 3)
14. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo DS/Nintendo) (+4)
15. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii/Nintendo) (+1)
16. Bruise of Destiny (Playstation 2/Bandai Namco) (+9)
17. Utaware Rumono (Playstation 2/Aquaplus) (–)
18. Final Fantasy Versus XIII (Playstation 3/Enix Public garden) (+1)
19. Fushigi No Dungeon (Nintendo DS/Sega) (+1)
20. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GameCube/Nintendo) (+2)
21. Dragon Quest Monsters Joker (Nintendo DS/Enix Public garden) (+7)
22. Phantasy Star Universe (Playstation 2/Sega) (+1)
23. SD Gundam G Generation Portable (PSP/Bandaged Namco) (R)
24. Shining Wind (Playstation 2/Sega) (–)
25. Growlanser V Generations (Playstation 2/Atlus) (+1)
26. Dead gold Alive Xtreme 2 (Xbox 360/Tecmo) (+1)
27. Tales of the Tempest (Nintendo DS/Bandai Namco) (- 6)
28. God Hand (Playstation 2/Capcom) (E)
29. Dead Rising (Xbox 360/Capcom) (E)
30. Final Fantasy V (Game Servant boy Advance/Enix Public garden) (–)

Famitsu magazine has revealed a lot of information about the upcoming Pokémon games for the DS.

- The release date for Diamond and Pearl is Sepetember 28th, 2006 in Japan
- The two legendary Pokémon are called Diaruga and Parukia
- Second screen is used for the menus in battles
- Voice chat is said to be included in the WiFi battles

I haven’t bought a Pokémon game since Pokémon Ruby came out for GBA, but I’m really looking forward to these games. They seem like they’re providing a lot more value than the others. It’s shaping up really well and I can’t wait to get back into that fun, Pokémon feel.

racketboy has updated the very first issue of nintendo power over the internet. warning: it is quite cheesy. cheers to claymation!

Nintendo Power Issue #1

i find animal crossing to be very addicting, it is very simple and lite. when i bought the game, i played for hours on end, until i payed my whole house off and made my town look like the land of any players dreams. i started to play less and less, my town started to look like crap. then for 2 months i did’nt touch the game, finding it a chore to always water my plants. then i started to not care, until my town looked like the ruins of ancient egypt. it stayed that way for one more month. i then bought my m3. i started to play again, but something was missing.
something very vital to the gameplay that i was lacking was not there. i found that to be online play. so i logged into www.ds-play.com and started to chat with the members. i started to allow them into my town. finding out that i was able to help noobs with my new found hacking abilities. since then i think my love for animal crossing grows even further, i think ill be playing it again for a long time. thanks to dsplay i can enjoy my online game once more! i request that if you havent registered at dsplay then u do so NOW!!!!

this game is supposed to be set in a ginormic tree. its an rpg, takeing place entirely in first person. wonder if it’ll be fun?

1. Final Fantasy III (Nintendo DS/Enix Public garden) (+2)
2. Final Fantasy XIII (Playstation 3/Enix Public garden) (- 1)
3. Persona 3 (Playstation 2/Atlus) (- 1)
4. Biohazard 5 (Playstation 3/Capcom) (–)
5. Metal GEAR Solid 4 (Playstation 3/Konami) (–)
6. Kamaitachi No Yoru 3 (Playstation 2/Sega) (–)
7. Summon Night 4 (Playstation 2/Banpresto) (+12)
8. Blue Dragon (Xbox 360/Microsoft) (–)
9. Sengoku Basara 2 (Playstation 2/Capcom) (+3)
10. Gyakuten Saiban 4 (Nintendo DS/Capcom) (- 1)
11. Super Robot Wars OG (Playstation 2/Banpresto) (–)
12. Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii/Nintendo) (+2)
13. Seiken Densetsu 4 (Playstation 2/Enix Public garden) (- 3)
14. Pokémon Diamond & Pearl (Nintendo DS/Nintendo) (+1)
15. Powerful Pro Baseball 13 (Playstation 2/Konami) (- 2)
16. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii/Nintendo) (+1)
17. Utaware Rumono (Playstation 2/Aquaplus) (+3)
18. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo DS/Nintendo) (- 2)
19. Final Fantasy Versus XIII (Playstation 3/Enix Public garden) (- 1)
20. Fushigi No Dungeon (Nintendo DS/Sega) (+2)
21. Bruise of the Tempest (Nintendo DS/Bandai Namco) (+2)
22. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GameCube/Nintendo) (- 1)
(23 through 27 mysteriously missing in report!)
28. Dragon Quest Monsters Joker (Nintendo DS/Enix Public garden) (E)
29. Super Paper Mario (GameCube/Nintendo) (E)

i hope wii games can get a little higher next time ;)

they quote on their website that the wii is, “sheer, unadulterated, peerless and incalculable FUN – for kids of all ages… and we mean that right up to those grown-up kids with mortgages and half-pints of their own.”. also they had the chance to preview the wii games durring the playtest in london, some of which include: wii sports and wario ware: smoothe moves. it sure looks like they had alot of fun!

Source: Game