Up until now, Nintendo's GameBoy was the best selling handheld game system ever, with some 118 million units sold. When you look back at your collection of portables, it makes sense. I still have the ol' Green Screen, Game Boy Pocket, a broken Game Boy Color, and a GBA SP. I had the Micro for some time and I lost that sweet GBP that had the Timex Indiglo backlight. Hey, that's how they got that record!
Now that I think of it, they're doing the same with the DS brand. I have bought the original DS, the DS Lite (still have a blue Japanese launch day model), the DSi (likewise, a launch day green model) and I just got a US DSi XL. Regretting the last one, BTW. I'm sure I did my part to help Nintendo hit this record of 128.89 million units sold.
What's scary is that Nintendo is far from done with the DS.
DS officially surpasses Game Boy as the best-selling portable game device...ever [GoNintendo]
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7:30 PM on 05.06.2010 | 
Oh, and it prints money.
Hey you are right. When I bought a GameBoy Color again in last October I realized how tenacious it was. The DS is delicate like a cellphone.
i thought i was safe from rick roll in the comment section, all hope is lost
well good to know shigeru miyamoto will eat tonight
I'm gonna wait on the 3DS though. Not because I have doubts--I don't--but I want to see what V2 is gonna look like/offer before I plunk down the coins. That and by the time that happens, there'll be a decent library out there to entice me. :P
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