News just in from Nintendo America. The Oynx (Black) and Coral Pink editions of the DS Lite will go on sale in US on September 13. Nintendo are also keen to point out that New Super Mario Bros. has now reached the 1 million unit sales mark after just 12 weeks on sale. That’s an average of eight games sold each minute continuously since launch. So the real question is when and if will Australia get these? Well the Oynx is rumoured for Sept. 21st perhaps Coral Pink will debut then too. Continue reading for the full press release. REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 24, 2006 The only thing more fun than new Nintendo DS Lite hardware colors is trying to keep up with the breakneck sales of the software to play on the popular little portable! On Sept. 13, two new colors Onyx and Coral Pink join Polar White, which is enjoying its own incredible sales peak and getting noticed everywhere.
The new colors also complement numerous DS games, including New Super Mario Bros., which has hit the 1 million unit sales mark after just 12 weeks on sale in the United States. That’s an average of roughly eight games sold each minute continuously since launch, making it the fastest-selling DS title in the United States for a 12-week period. Overall, DS system and game sales are both up more than 300 percent in July alone.
“”Not only are the DS Lite screen and battery life incredible,”” says George Harrison, Nintendo of America’s senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications. “”but the new colors just add another element of fun, allowing people to personalize’ who they are by the color, or colors they pick.””
Several other DS games are burning up shopping baskets. Animal Crossing: Wild World already has sold more than 800,000 units, and two brain games Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day (sold 4 million units worldwide) and Big Brain Academy (nearly 2 million sold to date worldwide) are part of a phenomenon of people wanting to feel as mentally sharp as possible by playing daily.
The best part for Game Boy Advance owners is Nintendo DS Lite plays their entire library of up to 1,000 Game Boy Advance games in single-player mode.
The Official Nintendo Player’s Guide for New Super Mario Bros. is now available at retail. For more information about the game, visit mario.nintendo.com.
The worldwide innovator in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo GameCube systems, and upcoming Wii console. Since 1983, Nintendo has sold nearly 2.2 billion video games and more than 375 million hardware units globally, and has created industry icons like Mario, Donkey Kong, Metroid, Zelda and Pokmon. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, visit the company’s Web site at www.nintendo.com.
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