| leo-j said: Sony is around 400M right? |
Yes, by VGChartz data, Sony passed 400 million video game machines sold two weeks ago.
Interestingly enough, the two are nearly exactly tied if you count the machines after Sony entered the race, with Nintendo being at 407 million. Although that Nintendo number is without the Gameboy Colour and whatever the Gameboy and SNES sold after the Ps1 launched.
On another note, Nintendo has nearly the exact same lifetime hardware market share as they do this generation. A funny coincidence.
Total:
Nintendo - 637 million (53.7%)
Sony - 400 million (33.7%)
Microsoft - 93.56 million (7.9%)
Sega - 56.2 million (4.73%)
This generation:
Nintendo: 249.67 million (54%)
Sony: 142.43 million (30.8%)
Microsoft: 68.91 million (15%)
Which also means that Nintendo should pass 250 million sold this generation in a month's time. Which means their generation sales, starting in the 3rd generation, are somewhere ala 62 million (NES)> ~ 100 million (SNES + GB) > ~ 100 million (N64 + GBC)> ~ 100 million (GC + GBA) > 250 million (Wii + DS)
(> 25 million, 3DS). Wii + DS should also pass 100 million in North America at some point during the holiday season, currently being at 98.92 million. The Wii will also pass the GBC in North America next week.
In short, Spurge has a lot of threads to make about Nintendo milestones in the future.
