Healthy sales news for Nintendo, as the Lite and original DS in the US together sold over 590,000 units in June.

Launched on June 11th, the updated model of the DS helped hardware units of the handheld soar to 593,000 for that month. The PS2 sold 312,000 units, while the 360 was next with 277,000 units.

Total videogame sales for the month amounted to some $844.5 million - $135.5 million of which were for the DS - up from $104.5 million this time last year. In fact, overall videogame sales were up 25% compared to June 2005.