DS crowned UK's favourite console
Sales surpass 10m units
Over 10m Nintendo DS handhelds have been sold in the UK, making the gadget Blighty’s favourite console of all time.
Newly released figures from market watcher GfK Chart-Track have revealed that 10.05m DSs have crossed the counter since the console first went on sale in the UK almost five years ago.
Sony’s PlayStation 2 was, until now, the UK’s most popular console, notching up sales of 10.02m units since the year 2000.
In excess of 5700 DS consoles are sold in the UK each day, Chart-Track added, and almost one in six Britons now owns one.
The PlayStation Portable’s UK sales stand at somewhere in the region of 3.2m units, while Brits have snapped up roughly 2.5m PS3s, 3.9m Xbox 360s and 6m Wiis to date. ®
COMMENTS
Re: Sneaky maths
I'm sure the PS2 figure includes all varieties of that machine, just as the DS total includes all types of the Nintendo consoles.
Back in your box, Sony fanboy.
game sale show it all
have you seen the game sale data on digitiser? it appears that sony is failing everywhere with the charts being dominated by nitendo & microsoft!
http://www.teletext.co.uk/gamecentral/features-reviews/1a47eb4c5cf1dfbec20a927b2e739960/UK+all+formats+chart+-+December+5.aspx
1(1) New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii)
2(4) Wii Sports Resort (Wii)
3(3) Wii Fit Plus (Wii)
4(2) COD: Modern Warfare 2 (360)
5(5) Assassin's Creed II (360)
6(6) COD: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3)
7(8) Mario & Sonic Winter Olympics Wii
8(7) Assassin's Creed II (PS3)
9(9) FIFA 10 (360)
10(10)FIFA 10 (PS3)
http://www.teletext.co.uk/gamecentral/features-reviews/9bba6f0fb41b56ef458638bdaac0dadc/Japanese+console+chart+-+December+6.aspx
1(-) New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii)
2(-) Phantasy Star Portable 2 (PSP)
3(-) Gundam Vs. Gundam Next Plus (PSP)
4(-) Samurai Warriors 3 (Wii)
5(1) Professor Layton 4 (DS)
6(2) Friend Collection (DS)
7(-) PokePark Wii (Wii)
8(3) Pokemon SoulSilver/HeartGold (DS)
9(4) Wii Fit Plus (Wii)
10(-) Assassin's Creed II (PS3)
http://www.teletext.co.uk/gamecentral/features-reviews/bdb4e27e0844eb38364a742543c89936/US+console+chart+-+October.aspx
1(-) Uncharted 2 (PS3)
2(-) Wii Fit Plus (Wii)
3(-) Borderlands (360)
4(2) Wii Sports Resort (Wii)
5(-) NBA 2K10 (360)
6(1) Halo 3: ODST (360)
7(-) NBA 2K10 (PS3)
8(-) Forza Motorsport 3 (360)
9(12)Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (DS)
10(-) FIFA 10 (360)
Sneaky maths
Add up all the types of DS and claim it's sold a few more than one type of Playstation. By the same logic as Nintendo use, lets add up PS1, PSone, PS2, PS2Slim, PS3, PS3Slim, PSP, PSPGo and see if Playstation has outsold DS shall we?
Ha
Your forgetting most of these people bought it for brain training, so it's not the uks favourite, it's just that there are 10 million thick people who bought it because Patrick Stewart and chris tarrent were in the adverts
