Or 535,379 units to be exact, according to Kotaku. It’s a very healthy start for the new console, though it doesn’t quite eclipse its predecessor - in its first month on sale, the DS Lite shifted over 550,000 handhelds.
This means that the DS in its various guises has now sold 24,239,590 units in its country of origin, with some clear daylight now between the dual-screened portable and its nearest competitor, the (almost-)all-conquering PS2.
There’s still no confirmed date for the DSi’s appearance in Europe and the US, but then the DSL is still doing very well in both territories, whereas Nintendo acted quickly in Japan to halt the rise of the PSP. With Sony’s handheld comfortably behind the DS everywhere else, it could be quite some time before we’re messing about with pictures and music and downloading applications from the DSiWare service.
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