Friday, April 10, 2009

Americans and Europeans bought 600 thousand DSi in two days.

Living in North America and Europe have bought more than 600 thousand DSi handheld consoles in the first two days after the commencement of sales, reports GameSpot. This information confirmed the president of Nintendo Satoru Iwata. Also reported that in each of these regions has sold approximately equal number of gaming systems. Previously, the information about that in the UK on the first weekend was able to realize 92 thousand DSi.
DSi Console has been on sale in Europe on 3 April this year. In North American stores the device appeared on 5 April. In Japan DSi sale on 1 November last year. By the end of March in this country has sold over two million consoles.
Recall that the first model of DS has been on sale in 2004, and in 2006 began selling DS Lite. The new version of the portable console was thinner and lighter predecessor. Game System DSi is the third model of DS. It has a large screen with a diagonal of 3.25 inches, two camera and slot for SD-cards. The new console is 12 percent thinner than DS Lite, but it lacks the slot for the cartridge Game Boy Advance.
Add that the DS is currently the leader in the market of portable game systems. According to Nintendo, the world has already been shipped to stores more than 100 million of various models of the console.

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