Last week the firm announced that pre-orders alone stood at 140,000 and most pundits were pitching their sell-through estimates at between 150,000 to 200,000. It would seem, however, that some of the information being fed back to the manufacturer from retail was slightly wide of (or, in fact, over) the mark.
The actual figure of 113,000 does still represent the companys most successful hardware launch in the UK to date. The DSi managed 90,000 units while the Wii clocked up 106,000. It didnt, however, break the PSPs record of 185,000 although this figure was achieved across four days rather than two.
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