Nintendo claims DS rules the roost

The company seems pleased in particular about its touch-screen DS handheld. Apparently, through September's end, the U.S. video game industry had shown revenue growth of 11% compared to the same period last year. Nintendo is happy to announce that most of the growth has stemmed from the success of the DualScreen - supposedly, without it the industry would have had a 1.6 per cent growth over the past nine months.

It looks as if Nintendo can expect continued success with the console, too - Nintendo has just announced an estimate of full-year DS shipments to come, growing from 17 million worldwide units to 20 million. The software ain't doing too badly either - 82 million units from 75 million.

Nintendo is attributing much of it's success to it's latest " Touch Generations" brand, games making good use of the DS' touch screen feature with a more universal appeal than traditional videogames, for example, Nintendogs and Brain Training. µ