Erik Aston on 30 January 2009
Update through December 2008...
|
|
SW LTD | HW LTD |
| DS | 533.38 | 96.22 |
|
GB |
501.11 | 118.69 |
| NES | 500.01 | 61.91 |
| SNES | 379.06 | 49.1 |
| GBA | 377.24 | 81.44 |
| Wii | 312.22 | 44.96 |
| N64 | 224.97 | 32.92 |
| GC | 208.56 | 21.75 |
GBA hardly gained and looks like it will not reach SNES totals.
DS jumps into first place and will have another 150m software year coming up (conservatively).
Wii and DS will hit 1 billion games shipped combined sometime this year.
Wii attach rate: 6.94
DS attach rate: 5.54
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
