NSMBW sells over 500k units in its third week in Japan (1.9M LTD)

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DM235 said:
Has there ever been a console were sales increased, year-over-year, after a peak year?

According to TheSources estimates, yes the NES did it. (go to this page for complete color coding). The GB also increased, but that can be accounted for by the GBC.

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=3035

The system to ship the most units in the financial year is bolded in the table below. Remember that blue are estimates, black is from financial reports (unit sales to retail), red is projected for the year ending March 2009, and orange are production shipments from Sony (rather than unit sales to retail) which should not be combined with unit sales figures.

FY	NES	SNES	N64	GC	Wii	GB	GBA	DS	PS1	PS2	PSP	PS3	MS	Gen	Sat	DC	Xbox	360
82	0.0
83	0.5
84	2.5
85	2.0												0.0
86	4.5												0.3
87	8.0												1.3
88	9.5					0.0							2.3	0.0
89	8.0					0.9							2.9	0.4
90	5.3	0.0				2.8							2.3	1.1
91	8.5	1.6				8.0							1.7	2.1
92	6.0	8.0				10.5							1.4	4.6
93	5.2	11.5				7.8							0.7	6.8
94	1.1	11.1				7.5			0.0				0.5	7.7	0.0
95	0.4	4.4				5.5			0.9				0.0	3.9	0.8
96	0.1	5.8	0.0			4.1			3.4					2.1	2.6
97	0.1	3.3	5.8			7.0			9.2					1.7	4.2
98	0.1	2.4	9.4			10.4			19.3					0.5	0.9	0.0
99	0.1	1.0	7.9			13.0			21.6	0.0				0.0	0.3	0.9
00'	0.1	0.1	6.5			17.5	0.0		18.5	1.4				0.0	0.0	4.7
01'	0.0	0.0	2.9	0.0		18.9	1.1		9.3	9.2						2.6	0.0
02'	0.0	0.0	0.5	3.8		4.7	17.1		7.4	18.1						0.8	3.1
03'	0.0		0.0	5.8		0.3	15.7		6.8	22.5						0.1	5.5
04'	0.0			5.0		0.0	17.6	0.0	3.3	20.1	0.0					0.0	5.8
05'				3.9			15.4	5.3	2.8	16.2	3.0						6.3	0.0
06'			2.4	0.0		8.3	11.5	0.0	16.2	14.1	0.0					3.4	3.2
07'			0.7	5.8		4.3	23.6		14.7	9.5	3.6					0.6	7.7
08'			0.2	18.6		1.6	30.3		13.7	13.9	9.2					0.0	8.1
09'			0.0	26.5		0.4	31.5		8.0	15.0	10.0						11.3