Industry: Japanese DS sales exceed 3,000,000!

Alongside the announcement yesterday that Nintendogs is proving its worth in the States, it would be foolish to ignore the success of the Nintendo DS in the far East. This week the three millionth Nintendo DS unit was sold in Japan, taking the total number of hardware units sold to 3,015,895 and rising. Bearing in mind that Sony's PSP, without a doubt the DS' closest competitor and rival, has sold a comparatively measly 1,652,728 units, its pretty obvious who is winning the race. Unlike in Europe, in Japan the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP were launched at around the same time, December last year, making the DS' lead all the more impressive.