Nintendo DS leads in UK market

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Nintendo DS became the best selling games console in the history of UK says new research.

The research figures released by market research company GfK Chart-Track revealed that a little more than 10 million Nintendo DS machines, and its successors the DS Lite and DSi, had been sold till now in the English market. It beats the previous bestseller PlayStation 2 of Sony. Sony has been on sale for about a decade.

The success of Nintendo DS is due to the broad appeal of its family-friendly titles.
Brain Training titles are among the biggest selling games on Nintendo DS. In this game the players are required to solve maths and also reasoning puzzles, and Nintendogs, in which people create and take care of virtual pets.

According to experts the simplicity of Nintendo DS is the key of success. It has only few buttons and it is in fact mainly controlled by poking and writing on a touchscreen with the help of a stylus. It is also appealing to those who are playing video games for the first time.

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