Nintendo plan to capture the European market with their upcoming release of the Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo’s new 3D gaming handheld console. According to website MCV, Nintendo have established 900,000 units for Europe. These reports come from whom their naming “a number of well connected parties”. If true, the number is quite substantial and mimic those of the Nintendo DS launch.  It’s of course unclear if the number includes Australian bound units.

Nintendo DS did quite well in Europe at launch, selling through one million units in three months. Nintendo Australia have recently posted a total life-span sales figure for Nintendo DS at 3 million stateside, becoming among the most successful consoles in Australian history. Nintendo have a sales target of 5 million units in 2011. The console will launch in Europe on March 24, three days earlier than North America.