According to NPD's recent April US sales figures, the Nintendo DS family set a new hardware record for the country with 1.04 million units sold for the month.
827,000 of the new updated DSi handhelds were sold while 215,000 DS Lite handhelds were sold as well. For its lifetime, there have been over 30 million units sold in the country.
"Nintendo systems and software represented 56 per cent of the industry total shares in April, indicating continued strong consumer preference for quality and value," noted Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive VP of sales & marketing.
"Nintendo systems and software represented 56 per cent of the industry total shares in April, indicating continued strong consumer preference for quality and value," noted Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive VP of sales & marketing.