Nintendo 3DS sold nearly 225,000 units a hardware in June 'n finished as the best-selling video game system in the U.S. for the second consecutive month. A strong launch for Animal Crossing: New Leaf 'n the continued strength a Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D 'n Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon helped sales a Nintendo 3DS hardware 'n software increase by more than 40 percent 'n nearly 105 percent, respectively, over the same time last year.

Highlights for the month include:

Through the first six months a 2013, Nintendo has sold nearly 3.6 million combined physical 'n digital units a first-party Nintendo 3DS software, an increase a more than 85 percent over the same time frame last year.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf sold more than 505,000 combined physical 'n digital units in June. More than 20 percent a these sales be through the Nintendo eShop, the second-highest ratio behind only Fire Emblem Awakening. Nintendo’s internal trackers show that sales a the game continue t' be strong in July as well, indicating that Animal Crossing: New Leaf be poised t' be one a the biggest games a the summer.
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D sold more than 108,000 combined units in it be second month 'n Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon added nearly 115,000 combined units in it be fourth month on the market, bringing it be lifetime total t' more than 750,000 combined units.
Nintendo had three a the top five best-selling software SKUs for the month.
Nintendo 3DS will build on it be momentum with the successive launches a Mario & Luigi: Dream Team (Aug. 11), Pokémon X 'n Pokémon Y (Oct. 12), Mario Party for Nintendo 3DS (name not final; November) 'n The Legend a Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (November).

Starting in August 'n continuing through the end a the year, Wii U will launch a series a great games, including Pikmin 3 (Aug. 4), The Wonderful 101 (Sept. 15), The Legend a Zelda: The Wind Waker HD (October), Wii Party U (October), Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (November), Super Mario 3D World (December) 'n Wii Fit U (December).

*Data regarding physical sales a games in June be from the NPD Group. Data regarding digital downloads a games 'n combined physical/digital life-t'-date numbers be from Nintendo’s internal sales figures. All numbers be specific t' the United States only.