Nintendo Sees Sales Boost
Resident Evil 4 helps the beleaguered GameCube along while the DS continues to sell well, despite a dearth of new games.
It's official - Britons like touching and zombies (touching zombies is, however, less popular). Nintendo has been given cause for cheer by new sales figures that show more than 200,000 DSs being rubbed furiously all across the country.
The DS got off impressively in early March, setting a new record for opening sales with 87,000 units sold in the first two days. The six weeks that followed have seen solid support for the dual screen handheld, despite the lack of new releases.
Nintendo is wary of letting the DS languish, though, and it has ratcheted up the release dates for several games. A quiet April period will be followed by the release in May and June of Pac-Pix, Ridge Racer DS, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Yoshi Touch & Go, Need for Speed Underground 2 and a new mystery-slash-adventure game named Another Code: Two Memories.
Meanwhile, sales of Capcom's horror masterpiece Resident Evil 4 have been on the up too. The zombie thriller managed to overcome the apathy surrounding the GameCube in Europe, selling 200,000 copies.
This is less than Capcom would like to see for its flagship series, and the game has been confirmed for release on PlayStation 2 later this year, but if you want to kill zombies now, the GameCube is the only place to do it.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games
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