DSi sells 92,000 in two days
Update: Chart-Track data shows flying start for new Nintendo handheld
Nintendo's DSi handheld sold 92,000 units in its first two days on sale in the UK, GamesIndustry.biz can reveal.
Retailers across the country had reported impressive pre-order figures for the new console, a technical upgrade of the DS Lite complete with motion sensitive cameras and supported by an online store.
The new console went on sale on Friday, and figures from official Chart-Track data add clarity to yesterday's revelation that the machine managed to outsell all other console hardware in the region combined.
The DSi retails in the UK for GBP 149.99.
Update: Chart-Track has now revised its figures for the DSi launch, down from 103,000 to 92,000 units.
Edited 1 times. Last edit by Jim Webb on 7th April 2009 1:14pm
And it looks way better than the DSi:)
As for the iTouch - I can't disagree more strongly. My wife got one for Xmas - and whereas she loved it for a while, its been sitting unused for ages. She has had a number of "crashes" on it, and struggles to upgrade the firmware via iTunes. This whole issue of having to connect to a PC to "sync" and get upgrades just isn't a good thing. We even had to upgrade our PC before she could use it at all (none of the PC requirements were mentioned on the box or elsewhere before we picked it out - I can't remember the last time I bought a product that *doesn't* work out of the box!).
My company was going to dive into iPhone game dev - but I'm very glad we haven't. I have some solid sales "horror" figures - in the long run, the only people going to make a lot of money out of the AppStore is Apple.