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DSi Tops 170,000 in First Week
November 4, 2008 - While we already reported on sellouts in the Tokyo area for the DSi, today Famitsu publisher Enterbrain pretty much confirmed it. The firm released early sales stats showing that the new system sold 170,779 units in the first two days following its November 1 release. At a ...
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Inside the Nintendo DSi
bunniestudios.com — While I was on the Yamanote line last week, I saw an advertisement for the Japanese launch... of the Nintendo DSi (Nintendo site / Wikipedia site). The DSi just went for sale on November 1st in Japan only, and it looks like the North American launch for ... (more) Inside the Nintendo DSi
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reuters.com — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co Ltd will likely launch a new model of... its top-selling handheld player, the DS, in overseas markets by the summer of 2009, President Satoru Iwata said. Nintendo will start selling the DSi, which ... (more) Nintendo sees overseas DSi launch by next summer | ...
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pocketgamer.co.uk — With just a couple of days standing between Nintendo fans and the launch of the DSi in... Japan, excitement around the new bit of camera-kitted, online-compatible hardware is growing faster than animosity between Guy Ritchie and his shy and retiring wife ... (more) DS news, DSi, Pocket Gamer
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Nintendo DSi sells-out in Japan
SlashGear — ... DSi consoles ready for the Japanese launch of the handheld this past weekend, but even that wasn’t enough.  Sales figures released by Famitsu publisher Enterbrain indicate that, in the first two days of its availability, Japanese gamers snapped up 170,779 DSi’s. ...

Nintendo sells-out DSi’s first wave in Japan
CrunchGear — ... will be a hit and eager Japanese gamers snatched up the first round of units within a few days. Reportable, it took only two days for Nintendo to sell through 170,000 of the 200,000 available DSi’s with the remaining 30,000 held up in unclaimed pre-orders and back-up inventory. The company has prepped another 100,000 units but who knows how long it will take those units to sell out. Nintendo will no doubt have enough to supply American gamers when the new handheld ...

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