Just as a note here... In terms of the 6 month period from October 2006-March 2007, Nintendo basically set some all-time records for hardware shipments... The DS sold 23.56 million on the year, and VGC lists them at 10.09 million in the first 6 months... Meaning they sold 13.47 million from Oct-March, tieing the PS2s 13.46 million from Oct 2004-March 2005 as the highest shipments for any console in a 6 month period in history. Combined DS, Wii, GBA and GC shipments were DS: 13.47 Wii: 5.84 GBA: 2.76 GC: 0.37 for a total of 22.44 million game hardware units shipped in a 6 month period. The previous record for combined 6-month shipments of one companies systems was 18.03 million combined PS2s, PSPs and PSones from that same Oct 04-March 05 period.
"[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.
