After much await, the Nintendo 3DS has been made official in Japan. Of course, worldwide launch won’t be happening yet, you’ve still got a full month to go. Nintendo should be rather happy with this launch in Japan, as reports have it that their entire initial shipments of 400,000 units were cleared within the day.

Some of those sales were to customers waiting in a few lines up to 2,000 persons long, but those lines were exceptions to the norm — several publications note that very few stores actually had any lines to speak of, as most Japanese electronics retailers sold out when the 3DS went on pre-order over a month ago. Well, the world doesn’t only line up for the iPhone and iPad, and their queue was exceptionally in order.

SOURCE via Bloomberg