You just can’t keep the DS down. It’s outselling everything and instead of the DS being Nintendo’s ‘third tier’, the experimentation console, it’s now the first tier. The experiment worked better than they could have imagined.

Nintendo released system sales figures over the weekend. Heading up the numbers is the company’s strong selling dual screen portable, the Nintendo DS, with 8.83 million units sold worldwide through the month of September.

Nintendo reveal sales figures - Joystiq

The latest Japanese charts, covering the week in which the Xbox 360 launched in the Far East, show Nintendo’s DS console far out in front in the hardware sales ranking, thanks to the arrival of Mario Kart DS.

The DS sold a massive 299,000 units during the week, further strengthening its lead in the handheld console market over the PlayStation Portable - which it has outsold consistently this year, and which, by comparison, sold 86,000 units in this chart.

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