NPD: DS Officialy best selling console in the US

[jarrod]

Seece said:

1) Nintendo DS: 47,2 million
2) PlayStation 2: 45 million
3) Gameboy: 38 million
4) Game Boy Advance: 36 million
5) Playstation: 34.4 million
6) Nintendo Wii: 34,1 million
7) NES: 29 million
8) Xbox 360: 25,3 million
9) SNES: 19.5 million
10) PSP: 18 million
11) N64: 16.7 million
12) PlayStation 3: 15,4 million
13) Xbox: 14,5 million
14) Sega Genesis: 14.4 million
15) GameCube: 11,7 million

I added all previous consoles, roughly 0.87 of the Americas numbers we have for them, this is VERY rough. But gives you an idea

Genesis, N64 and GameCube are definitely below the historical NPD data I remember seeing.  iirc Genesis/N64 were both around 19-20m and GC was around 14m.  I actually remember NPD data having N64 ahead of SNES, which was pretty shocking.

As an aside, Genesis figures are notoriously tough to track, due in large part to the various expanded (CDX, Nomad, etc) and licensed (Majesco, JVC, etc) models out there.  Sega's official figures (29m) only account for the two regular MD/Genesis models they produced, but I've seen estimates that go up to 40m for Genesis factoring in every possible variant.