The Nintendo DS is a very popular handheld console. It has sold millions of units worldwide. In Japan too, it has a large following. Now IGN is reporting that Japanese retail tracker Media Create has announced that the Nintendo has sold a total of 100 million pieces of DS software in Japan.
Here is the list of the top ten Nintendo DS titles in Japan:
New Super Mario Bros – 5,174,163 units
Brain Age 2 – 4,835,159 units
Animal Crossing DS – 4,693,662 units
Brain Age – 3,771,440 units
Mario Kart DS – 3,042,753 units
Pokemon Diamond – 3,005,505 units
Pokemon Pearl – 2,490,564 units
English Training DS – 2,216,322 units
Mario Party DS – 1,706,506 units
Big Brain Academy – 1,654,285 units
If you have a look at the above Nintendo DS games, most of them are Nintendo-published titles. The PlayStation 2 had taken some four years and three months to reach the 100 million software mark. Nintendo DS did this in three years and five months. Media Create also mentioned that 922 titles have been released for the DS since the launch. Of these 922, twenty one titles have crossed the million mark.