It's official: The Nintendo DS pw0ns. Since its launch on November 21 2004, over 21 million Nintendo DS's have been sold worldwide - 23 systems per minute, or one unit every two seconds, as Nintendo pointed out in an ever modest press release.

"In comparison," Nintendo's PR hacks tell us, "Apple shipped one million of its ever-popular iPod music players in its first 19 months."

"We're thrilled to be announcing this milestone today," says George Harrison, Nintendo of America's senior vice president of spin, hype and corporate ego masturbation, "especially since Nintendo DS was North America's top-selling video game system of any type in June. We attribute this success to Nintendo's overall strategy of offering something for everyone - from five-year-olds caring for their Nintendogs to 65-year-olds tuning their mental agility with Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day."

Is it just me or did he just tell 65 year olds that they'd better be playing Brain Age or they'll go senile? Shock, horror, someone get Jack Thompson quick; tell him he's going senile!

The Nintendo DS shall continue to dominate, I dare say, now that the DS Lite has been released - and even existing DS owners are buying into that - and will be paired up with the upcoming Wii which, if there is any Good Lord overlooking the gaming world, will be a success.

Meanwhile, Sony's PlayStation Portable continues its more technologically advanced slide into the annals of history.