Editing Nintendogs (section)

===Sales===
In the first week of its release in Japan (April 18, 2005, to April 24, 2005), the three versions, ''Shiba & Friends'', ''Miniature Dachshund & Friends'' and ''Chihuahua & Friends'', sold 75,000, 49,000 and 44,000, respectively, totalling 168,000 units. This title game also boosted the Nintendo DS system sales by over 4.2 times the previous week to 95,000 units, up from 22,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ds.ign.com/articles/608/608232p1.html|title=DS Sales Skyrocket in Japan|website=IGN|date=April 28, 2005|author=Anoop Gantayet|access-date=July 20, 2005|archive-date=May 7, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050507131404/http://ds.ign.com/articles/608/608232p1.html|url-status=live}}</ref> It was the 91st best-selling game in Japan in 2008, selling 142,591 copies combined, with cumulative Japanese sales of 1,850,984 combined by 2008.<ref name="famitsu100">{{cite web|title=2008 top 100|url=http://www.kyoto.zaq.ne.jp/dkbkq103/yso/top100/2008.htm|publisher=Kyoto.zaq.ne.jp|access-date=2009-01-21|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213082759/http://www.kyoto.zaq.ne.jp/dkbkq103/yso/top100/2008.htm|archive-date=2012-02-13}}</ref>

In Europe, it was the top-selling Nintendo [[2005 in video games|game of 2005]] with {{nowrap|1.6 million}} copies sold that year.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web|last=Jordan|first=Jon|date=January 5, 2006|title=DS lead increases further|url=https://www.pocketgamer.com/news/ds-lead-increases-further/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-13|language=en|archive-date=2021-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211113111051/https://www.pocketgamer.com/news/ds-lead-increases-further/}}</ref> The game went on to sell {{nowrap|23.96 million}} copies worldwide, making it the second [[List of best-selling Nintendo DS video games|best-selling Nintendo DS game]] of all time.<ref name="dssales">{{cite web|url=https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/software/ds.html|title=Sales Data - Top Selling Software Sales Units - Nintendo DS Software|publisher=[[Nintendo]]|date=2020-09-30|access-date=2020-11-17|archive-date=2016-04-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427092514/https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/software/ds.html|url-status=live}}</ref> According to Nintendo, the majority of ''Nintendogs'' owners were [[Women and video games|female]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jordan |first=Jon |date=27 October 2006 |title=How DS created a new generation of girl gamers |url=https://www.pocketgamer.com/news/how-ds-created-a-new-generation-of-girl-gamers/ |url-status=live |access-date=2022-05-19 |website=[[Pocket Gamer]] |archive-date=2022-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519202853/https://www.pocketgamer.com/news/how-ds-created-a-new-generation-of-girl-gamers/ }}</ref>