14th March 2005, 4:30 PM
Quote: The DS launch seems to have gone down pretty well in the UK. Sales projections just in have the DS as selling 87,000 units in the first week making it the fastest selling console in UK history (either home or handheld).
Compare this to the UK GBA launch week which had an estimated 67,000 unit sales, while GBA SP managed 47,000. However, before today Nintendo's Gamecube was the fastest selling console over a launch week with 69,000 units mainly due to a low launch price for a home console.
The DS launched on Friday and currently has 12 titles in the UK top 40 with Mario 64 DS at number 4.
Not bad.
Cube-Europe
Sometimes you get the scorpion.