Nintendo beats its own handheld sales record
DS now outselling the GBA

The Big N had some good news to announce along with its latest financials this week.
No, it's not just that it's made another trillion yen profit. It is that sales of the DS have now surpassed those of Nintendo's own phenomenally successful Game Boy Advance.
Casualgaming.biz reports that since its release in 2001, the GBA has sold 81.36 million units.
Impressive, certainly, but it's a figure which DS has just beaten with its shipped total of 84.33 million consoles since release in 2004.
While we're on the subject of numbers that end in million, you might also be interested to know that total DS software sales total 454.63 million (450 million of which must be copies of Brain Training), the Wii has sold 34.55 million consoles and the biggest hardware seller of all time, PS2, has clocked up over 140 million units since 2000.
All of this however has got us wondering if there are any rules for when a console becomes a new one. As in, can DSi sales be added to the DS ones to date (just as sales of the GBA SP are likely to have been bundled in with the GBA)? If so, our suggestion to Sony would be to keep releasing updated PSPs instead of a PSP 2 in order to get to some high figures. After all, in the numbers sold stakes, it's probably the only way its going to beat Nintendo.