More than 505,000 Nintendo hardware systems were sold in...
More than 505,000 Nintendo hardware systems were sold in March in the U.S., Nintendo of America (NOA) said Friday. That included “more than 225,000” 3DS systems and “nearly 175,000” Wiis, it said. (See separate report in this issue.) The remaining…
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105,000 systems sold were DS systems other than the 3DS. NOA said other “noteworthy milestones” achieved in March included “strong launches” for the games Mario Party 9 for the Wii, released March 9, and Kid Icarus Uprising for the 3DS, released March 23. More than 230,000 copies of the Wii game were sold and 135,000 units of the 3DS title, it said. The 3DS games Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land continued to “perform well in their fourth and fifth respective months on the market,” NOA said. It said 118,000 copies of Mario Kart 7 were sold last month, boosting the game’s life-to-date U.S. sales to 1.6 million, while 100,000 copies of Super Mario were sold, increasing that game’s U.S. life-to-date sales to 2 million. NOA also said Ubisoft’s Just Dance franchise had sold 15 million copies on the Wii to date.