Nintendo DS (DS)DS breaks UK sales recordMCVUK - December 9, 2009
Submitted by apujanata (14935)
at 4:18AM PST on December 10, 2009
Nintendo DS has become the biggest-selling games hardware in UK chart history, surpassing 10 million units sold, MCV can reveal.
The device hit the milestone in week 47 of this year according to GfK-ChartTrack data, taking it past the record held by Sony’s PS2.
UK unit sales of PS2 stand at 10.02 million to date, whilst DS has already hit 10.05 million.
DS has been on the UK market since March 2005. PS2 launched nine years ago in November 2000.
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