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DM235 on 06 January 2010
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nordlead said:
DM235 said:
Any idea what caused the bump in sales for the NES in 1991? I would have thought that would have been SMB3, but it came out in 1990...

upon further reading of the article I linked (actually in the software section), I may have discovered the reason for the bump.

It looks like Nintendo adjusted their fiscal year and cut off 5 months, which would explain the drop to 5m units. However, it still managed to go back up from 8m to 8.5m, which while it isn't a major increase, essentially states that it maintained sales for 1.5 years after the peak.


Sorry, I just skimmed the article and I missed that.

Anyhow, so does that mean that the NES only maintained its sales after the peak year, and therefore never had a dip and then a bounce back?  If that's the case, then that means no system has ever increased in sales after a peak year?

So unless the Wii is going to break that rule, historically speaking since it peaked in 2008 (2009 FY), and we only expect to see 20 million this fiscal year, the Wii should only maintain these numbers for next year, or decline?