Figures provided by ELSPA and ChartTrack show that for the week ending December 6, Nintendo’s handheld sold more units than any other console in UK history.
In doing so the DS has surpassed its own record as fastest selling console in a single week, which it set last December. Prior to this, the record belonged to the PSP, which had held the achievement since its UK launch back in Sep 2005.
ChartTrack company director Dorian Bloch confirmed the news to MCV, claiming that “the DS Lite has beaten its own record, almost exactly a year after it first took the title. It wasn’t a huge jump, but it bodes well for the remaining weeks. The interesting thing is that we can now assume that if there is still some DS Lite stock in the land in the next couple of weeks, the record will go again.”