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Update: DSi sells 600k over weekend

Also: Nintendo won't cut Wii price.

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As well as dating Wii Sports Resort, Nintendo used its Japanese press conference today to announce initial Western sales numbers for DSi, and to rule out a price cut for Wii, Kotaku reports.

DSi sold 300,000 units during its first two days on sale in North American and Europe, Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto told the press.

UPDATE: Nintendo has confirmed to our colleagues at GamesIndustry.biz that the console sold through 300,000 units in each market, not the two markets combined, as we initially reported. So DSi sales over its Western launch weekend total 600,000.

They also said that there were no plans to cut the price of DS or Wii, despite the latter's falling sales in Japan.

They did discuss additional services that might come to DSi in future: museum maps, tour guides, and schoolroom applications. But, they said, Nintendo was not going to head off the threat from Apple's iPhone by moving into the mobile phone market.

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