A few things to consider ... The top 5 best selling systems of all time are: Gameboy (Nintendo) 118,690,000 Playstation 2 (Sony) 111,250,000 Playstation (Sony) 102,490,000 Gameboy Advance (Nintendo) 76.77 Nintendo Entertainment System (Nintendo) 61.79 Your comment on Nintendo systems selling poorly after their replacement showed up is incorrect as the SNES and Gameboy sold 10 Million units after their follow up appeared, and the Gameboy advance has sold nearly 20 Million units since the launch of the Nintendo DS. Your 1 Million per month estimate negates the boost that all systems get at holiday periods, the Nintendo DS sold (roughly) 5 Million units in North America and Japan in November and December of 2006 and (as a rough guestimate) probably 7 to 8 Million units world wide in that time frame. Basically, if you're able to average 1.2 Million units a month outside of the holiday season and 8 Million units in the holiday season you'll sell 20 Million units in a year; if you can do that for 5 years you break 100 Million units. Now, the reason I wouldn't expect Nintendo to break 100,000 units is that you could claim that the only systems which have done that have artificially inflated numbers; there are a lot of duplicated Gameboy sales because of the Gameboy Pocket and Gameboy Color and the length of time the system was available, and the Playstation and PS2 have well known disc drive problems and were avaliable for a long time which increased their resales.
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