NES in Japan outliving the N64 is insane.
Others have said it, but that Pokémon bump for the GB is astounding. Who would imagine a system having its best year in its tenth year?
Those DS numbers are amazing too. I understand why Nintendo worries about the erosion of the handheld market. I suspect we'll never see numbers like that again.
Uh, what? For the GBC, there are hundreds of games that play only on the GBC and will not work on an original GB. Why would you ignore that?They generally play the same games. There were far too few GBA-exclusive or DSi-exclusive games to really call each one its own platform distinct from the previous one. As far as I'm concerned the Game Boy's first true hardware revision was the GBA.
I had no clue the DS had sold 60m units in the US. That's crazy! Thanks for the data, Aqua.
Thanks for the data, Aquamarine! It's fascinating stuff.
For those who are interested here's a graph summarising the data:
http://www.conductunbecoming.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ninhwsales_ww.png
I'll try to get some more specific graphs up shortly.
Also, fun fact from the data: Nintendo has shipped a grand total of 657,590,000 consoles as of March this year. They passed the half a billion mark sometime in FY '09.
Wii U is doing better in Europe than Japan?
So? The Game Boy+GBC, N64, Gamecube, GBA, and Wii all did better in Europe than Japan too. Europe is a much larger market, population-wise, than Japan is...
Sales broken down by region:
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Yeah, I had had the notion that the Wii U was bombing bombing in Europe for some reason. Like, compared to other regions. Dispite population.
Yeah, I had had the notion that the Wii U was bombing bombing in Europe for some reason. Like, compared to other regions. Dispite population.
Aquamarine, I can go ahead and add this to the Nintendo data I have saved on Google Drive?
https://drive.google.com/#folders/0B9Xhc02VTSWzM0lVaHZpblNTM1U
Where's the Virtual Boy?
I'd be interested to see this as well. As Nintendo's only real failed piece of hardware it would be interesting to see how the data compares to the Wii U. The Wii U's first year is certainly pretty damning when compared to most of the other launch years, and I imagine most of those numbers are in and around launch day so the trend line is probably even worse than that.
Anyone know if Nintendo's seen an uptick in Wii U sales since Wind Waker? If we don't see some significant positive momentum going into the holidays (and after 3D World) then I think we're all safe in calling it done.
Since you already have the figures in a spread sheet. Can you do a line graph with sales on y, months since release on x and the device as a measure?
So all devices would start at the same point and it would show how they tracked over their lifetime compared to each other.
Cheers brosef
Wait, Nintendo shipped 10,000 NESs between April 1996 and March 1997 in the US? What was going on then?
Uh, what? For the GBC, there are hundreds of games that play only on the GBC and will not work on an original GB. Why would you ignore that?
There's more than 148 for sure -- a lot of those ? mark games are definitely color only. Some are dual-mode (backwards compatible), but a lot aren't. Many games from 1998-1999 have backwards compatibility, but most titles from 2000 on don't (a few do, but not most). If you want to know for sure though, the back of the box will tell you -- color only games have just the GBC logo in the upper right on the back of the box, while dual-mode games will also have a GB logo. Many color only games also have an "Only For" label on the front, for US releases, but most color-only games released after the GBA don't have that, since they work in a GBA too, so you do need the back of the box to be sure. Japanese GBC boxes tell you on the front -- they say "Game Boy" in a label in the lower left if they're backwards compatible, or "Color" if they are not.Hundreds? I always thought it was like a dozen or two. Hmm, let's see.
Wikipedia has 148 games listed as not backward compatible, plus a lot of question marks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_Color_games
Must be.Anyway, why would you ignore that? Nintendo logic, I guess.
They're Game Boy Color, not just Poekmon. Sure Pokemon was massively popular, but not EVERYONE with a GBC got any Pokemon games... I didn't for example, and got a GBC in December '98.Oh my lord at them 1999 to 2001 GB numbers. That must be like all Pokemon.
Oh my lord at them 1999 to 2001 GB numbers. That must be like all Pokemon.
Interesting to note than in Japan, the GBA only sold 16 million.
GB-32 mil GBA 16mil DS 32 mil 3DS-???
Wonder how well their next one will do mobile being a contender and all lawl.
I didn't realize the SNES sold so...poorly. It's the golden age of gaming!
There's more than 148 for sure -- a lot of those ? mark games are definitely color only. Some are dual-mode (backwards compatible), but a lot aren't. Many games from 1998-1999 have backwards compatibility, but most titles from 2000 on don't (a few do, but not most). If you want to know for sure though, the back of the box will tell you -- color only games have just the GBC logo in the upper right on the back of the box, while dual-mode games will also have a GB logo. Many color only games also have an "Only For" label on the front, for US releases, but most color-only games released after the GBA don't have that, since they work in a GBA too, so you do need the back of the box to be sure. Japanese GBC boxes tell you on the front -- they say "Game Boy" in a label in the lower left if they're backwards compatible, or "Color" if they are not.
So yeah, someone with the time to go through all the boxes could clear up that Wikipedia list without having to play all the games. Lots of Wikipedia gaming lists are like that, half-complete lists that are interesting but far from authoritative...
Must be.