{"id":6924,"date":"2009-12-10T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=6924"},"modified":"2015-05-09T21:46:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T04:46:15","slug":"ds-best-selling-console-in-u-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/ds-best-selling-console-in-u-k\/","title":{"rendered":"DS  Best Selling Console in U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9075\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DS-green_box-S.jpg\" alt=\"DS green_box-S\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" \/>DEC. 10, 2009 \u2022 According to GfK-ChartTrack, the Nintendo DS became the best selling console ever in the United Kingdom \u2013 surpassing the 10.05 million mark. The previous record holder was the PlayStation 2 at 10.02 million. The DS took four years and eight months to capture the record, while the PS2 has been on sale for nine years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: The Nintendo DS is setting records in every major market it has been released.\u00a0 It is hard to believe that the system was initially seen as a knee-jerk reaction to the launch of Sony&#8217;s PSP system back in the 2004\/2005 timeframe.\u00a0 On an annual sales basis, the DS has blown away all previous records.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the Wii has a long way to go to catch the PlayStation 2, but that system is also outselling the PS2 on an annual basis.\u00a0 Outside of the money it brings to Nintendo, the main item to note is how the level of success continues to increase as the video game industry expands.\u00a0 Sales may have been down in 2009, but they were down from a record year in 2008 and the industry is far above where it was five years ago.\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEC. 10, 2009 \u2022 According to GfK-ChartTrack, the Nintendo DS became the best selling console ever in the United Kingdom \u2013 surpassing the 10.05 million mark. The previous record holder was the PlayStation 2 at 10.02 million. The DS took four years and eight months to capture the record, while the PS2 has been on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6924"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14135,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924\/revisions\/14135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}