“When the economy is strong, people tend to buy three things from the top of their wish list. But when things are bad, people often buy only the first thing on their list,” Iwata said. “Fortunately for us a lot of shoppers put our products at the top of their list.”

The 800,000 is up from 350,000 from the same period last year. Also the DS saw an increase of 20 percent as well. What recession?

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