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DS is the Best-Selling Console Ever in the U.S.

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47 million units. It is now the U.S.'s best-selling console ever. Take that, PSP. Also, total Wii sales in the U.S. amount up to 34 million.

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Whoohoooo! *pops Champagne*
 
Let's see now
NES sold 34,000,000 as of January 2010
SNES sold 23,350,000 as of January 2010
Nintendo 64 sold 20,630,000 as of January 2010
GameCube sold 12,940,000 as of January 2010
Wii sold 35,910,000 as of September 2010
Game Boy sold 44,060,000 as of January 2010
Game Boy Advance sold 17,640,000 units as of January 2010
Game Boy Advance SP sold 24,000,000 units (both combined = 41,640,000) as of January 2010
Nintendo DS/Lite sold 39,960,000 units as of September 2010
Nintendo DSi sold 7,720,000 units as of September 2010
Nintendo DSi XL sold 1,600,000 units as of September 2010

So far, the Game Boy and Game Boy Color, combined is the biggest selling console by Nintendo, in the US, however, when you combine the sales of the Game Boy, Color, Advance and SP, it comes to 41,640,000 as of January 2010), however the DS, DS Lite, DSi and DSi XL sales come to 49,280,000 as of September 2010 (by now, it's more than likely over 50 million).

While the DS (and Lite) are individually not the best-selling, the DS series as a whole is the best selling console series.

Now, what about Microsoft and Sony?
PlayStation has sold um... stuff this. Let's just say the PS1 has sold over 100 million worldwide, the PS2 is almost 150 million worldwide and whatever... I can't be bothered to search for how many of each console was sold IN THE US (And not worldwide).

I can say that the DS series combined totals some thing like 135 million, which makes it the biggest selling handheld series (if you count the entire Game Boy as a series from Game Boy to Game Boy Micro, and all the PSPs from PSP-1000 to PSP Go, as a series).

Globally, the PS2 is the best-selling console of all time, but as for the US, I have no idea.

Remember this, the DS hasn't sold 47 units in the US... (just), because as of September 2010 it was 49,280,000. I'm pretty sure that in 3 months, another 720,000 could have been sold, maybe? I.e. not 47 million DSs sold, but more like OVER 50 MILLION.
 
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It's indeed a great system with many fun games. Simple fun games. Just wait until the 3DS is released....if you thought Nintendo wasn't already swimming in money....
 
Just for the sake of it, here's a list of 18 consoles, first in order of total hardware sales, then again, by software sales:

Hardware sales
  1. Nintendo DS - 144.71
  2. Sony PlayStation 2 - 140.68 million
  3. Nintendo GameBoy - 118.69 million
  4. Sony PlayStation - 102.49 million
  5. Nintendo Wii - 84.05 million
  6. Nintendo GameBoy Advance - 81.49 million
  7. Sony PlayStation Portable - 65.15 million
  8. Nintendo Entertainment System - 61.91 million
  9. Microsoft Xbox 360 - 50.08 million
  10. Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 49.10 million
  11. Sony PlayStation 3 - 45.61 million
  12. Nintendo 64 - 32.92 million
  13. Sega Genesis - 28.54 million
  14. Microsoft Xbox - 24.65 million
  15. Nintendo GameCube - 21.75 million
  16. Sega GameGear - 10.62 million
  17. Sega Saturn - 8.82 million
  18. Sega Dreamcast - 8.20 million

Software sales
  1. Sony PlayStation 2 - 1.5125 billion
  2. Sony PlayStation - 962.00 million
  3. Nintendo DS - 735.36 million
  4. Nintendo Wii - 616.51 million
  5. Nintendo GameBoy - 501.11 million
  6. Nintendo Entertainment System - 500.00 million
  7. Microsoft Xbox 360 - 469.91 million
  8. Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 379.07 million
  9. Nintendo GameBoy Advance - 377.37 million
  10. Sony PlayStation 3 - 328.56 million
  11. Microsoft Xbox - 268.79 million
  12. Sony PlayStation Portable - 256.76 million
  13. Nintendo 64 - 227.09 million
  14. Nintendo GameCube - 208.57 million
  15. Sega Genesis - 175.80 million
  16. Sega Dreamcast - 64.89 million
  17. Sega Saturn - 46.53 million
  18. Sega GameGear - 38.26 million
 
Keep in mind, though that the PS2 is "totally awesome", AND that it's 11 years old.... but that don't mean much.

Also for fun, here's a list of the Top 10 best-selling games of the week ending January 1, 2011 in the US:
  1. Kinect Adventures! (Xbox 360 - 506,483 sold - 4,804,154 total)
  2. Wii Sports (Wii - 294,017 sold - 40,274,398 total)
  3. Just Dance 2 (Wii - 270,818 sold - 2,982,609 total)
  4. Call of Duty: Black Ops (Xbox 360 - 231,873 sold - 7,088,590 total)
  5. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii - 211,720 sold - 11,130,769 total)
  6. Wii Sports Resort (Wii - 205,962 sold - 11,622,407 total)
  7. Kinect Sports (Xbox 360 - 167,306 sold - 1,447,221 total)
  8. Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii - 159,173 - 1,911,981)
  9. Mario Kart DS (DS - 153,867 sold - 9,604,707 total)
  10. Call of Duty: Black Ops (PS3 - 149,240 sold - 4,182,173 total)

Also, the Top 10 best-selling games of 2010, worldwide:
  1. Wii Sports (Wii - 16,659,264 sold - 74,711,761 total)
  2. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii - 11,289,876 sold - 21,252,316 total)
  3. Wii Sports Resort (Wii - 11,249,197 sold - 23,743,364 total)
  4. Call of Duty: Black Ops (Xbox 360 - 10,186,297 sold - 10,186,297 total)
  5. Wii Fit Plus (Wii - 8,854,800 sold - 17,467,586)
  6. Call of Duty: Black Ops (PS3 - 8,034,123 sold - 8,034,123 total)
  7. Halo: Reach (Xbox 360 - 7,551,737 sold - 7,551,737 total)
  8. Kinect Adventures (Xbox 360 - 7,157,829 sold - 7,157,829 total)
  9. Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver Version (DS - 6,381,329 sold - 9,937,839 total)
  10. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii - 5,964,123 sold - 5,964,123 total)

Lawl at Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction sales.
During it's whole life, it has sold a whopping... 41,543 copies in Japan. During it's 6th - 10th week in japan, it got little amounts of copies as 715. 715 copies in a whole week
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Compare that to CODBO: 44,547 copies sold in Japan.
Compared to US, 7,088,590.. Japan don't like FPSs?
 
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