Healthy sales of Nintendo DS portable console

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Nintendo of America’s representatives have recently released an official response to the US sales data of NPD Group for June 2009. The data has focused on healthy sales the Nintendo DS portable console and also of its new Motion Plus accessory for the Wii.

In the month of June the Nintendo DS sale was 766,000 units. To this figure the company had said that it is more than all other consoles combined. Nintendo said that out of this sale figure, 424,000 units were of the new Nintendo DSi and 342,000 units are of the original Nintendo DS Lite.

It has been also reported by Nintendo that it has sold a total of 374,000 units of its new MotionPlus accessory for the Wii. In this sale about 169,000 units were sold in a standalone package and 205,000 units were packaged with EA’s Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10.

Vice president of sales and marketing of Nintendo of Ameriaca said, “More consumers continued to gravitate toward products that offer quality experiences and great value for the whole family.”

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