"A statement made by Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata as the year drew to a close revealed that over five million units of the Nintendo DS had been sold through before the New Year sales period even began in earnest in the last week of December," reports GamesIndustry.biz.
According to Nintendo, the DS reached that total in just over a year, compared with 17 months for the PS2. It also claims that, in the Japanese market, the DS "has now outsold the PSP by a ratio of 2.5 to 1 overall", says the site.
Update: The latest figures for DS sales are 5 million units in Japan, 4 million in North America and 3.5 million in Europe, reports GamesIndustry.biz.
