| Conegamer said: That's quite a milestone! And that made me think about the Nintendo family, from the same time the PSX released obviously: DS-152.33 Wii- 96.37 GBA- 81.51 N64- 32.93 GB- 21.74 3DS- 18.58 Total- 403.46 So that's actually pretty darn close! The question is now- Will Sony be able to catch Nintendo again (likely they 'lost' the lead this year, or late last), or will Ninty just pull away? |
Where are you getting the GB figures from?
I don't know what it shipped prior to FY ending March 1998, but from then till it (well it will be mostly GBColor, but Ninty classes it as the same machine) died it shipped over 64 million... and that's missing FY2006 & 7, which were both after PSX launch (probably around 10 million each for those years too)
Also from April 97 onwards SNES shipped almost 4 million, and NES 70k... SNES at least probably shipped close to 10 million in the previous 2 years, NES admitedly not enough to count for much, maybe a million at most.
I guess discounting NES and SNES is understandable, as despite their continued selling they fit into a time before the PSX, but certainly all GBColors should be counted, which is over 60 million.
As for Sony catching Nintendo, if your GB number had been correct (assuming I am not missing a reason it is meant to be so low) Sony would actually be in the lead already if using shipment figures, and while still a little behind in sales the last quarter shows they are currently shipping more hardware overall (though I think they would have to have a 2-3 million selling advantage next quarter to surpass Nintendo before the Wii U releases)
