I wish I had a product which sold every 5 seconds. I might not but Nintendo do with there DS portable gaming console. This number is calculated on the 6 million DS’s sold last year in the US alone. That is around 16,500 a day or around 700 an hour or 11 a minute and finally 0.2 every second. Multiply that by 5 and you get a DS sold every 5 seconds. If that is for the US only image the number if you include the rest of the world!

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Imagine that, a company that actually wants to sell less products. Nintendo have decided to cancel some ads in the U.K, instead filling the spots with DS ads (like that needs help to sell). It has come up after the massive demand for the Wii this Christmas and the inability to meet it in production. Nintendo said they want to “take a responsible stance this Christmas and not fuel demand.” There may be a Wii left on the shelf this Christmas after all (sorry I was being sarcastic).

Check out Engadget for the full article.

Believe it or not but it looks like the new PSP Slim might not have been such a bad idea at all for Sony, at least in Japan. After getting a thrashing from Nintendo with there DS/DS Lite, Sony has made a come back with the PSP Slim. For the number crunching people, who for them stats are like air, they sold over 250,000 units in 4 days. We will see if this little trend will last thought the rest of the planet.

For more info, goose step over to the Gizmodo Blog.