April 2009 NPD sales figures coverage: April 5 - May 2, 2009 Anita Frazier, industry analyst at NPD states that DSi basically stole the show in April. "I think the introduction of the DSi just captured a lot of folks' attention for the month," she said. "While the Wii was down, it still sold a lot of units 30 months after its release. By comparison, in April '03 when the PS2 was 30 months in the market, it sold 264K units and had an install base of 17.5 million - and I think we'd all call the PS2 a major success. The Wii install base is now at 20 million. Also keep in mind that last year the introduction of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Mario Kart were big catalysts for Wii hardware acquisition and we just don't have titles of that magnitude this year. So while it's tempting to start to want
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