By way of just-released Q2 2008 financial data, Nintendo has revealed that total year-to-date Nintendo DS sales have surpassed that of the company’s previous generation handheld, the Game Boy Advance. As of this September, Nintendo had sold 84.33 million DS units worldwide. In comparison, life-to-date sales of Game Boy Advance hardware hover at 81.36 million. These figures of course include all revisions, such as the DS Lite and GBA SP.

Nintendo expects the strong DS performance to continue, forecasting that an upwards of 30.50 million units will be sold from April 2008 to March 2009.

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