DS breaks Thanksgiving sales record

Over 1 million hardware units sold.

Nintendo reports that according to its internal tracking numbers it sold more than 1.5 million Wii, Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi video game systems combined in the US during Thanksgiving week.

That works out to more than 150 Nintendo systems sold every minute continuously for the week.

More than one million Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi systems were sold, surpassing the all-time handheld sales record set by Game Boy Advance during the 2002 Thanksgiving week. Over 550,000 Wii consoles were sold.

"Holiday shoppers are finding value in our products' prices, and through a game-play experience that is unique to Nintendo," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing.