Nintendo Q1 Earnings July 31st (Results Inside - Profit)

[Mr Khan]

Soundwave said:

N64 shipments are harder to gauge because it had a staggered launch in different territories. It launched in Japan in June 1996, but didn't launch in Europe until March 1997 for example.

From Aquamarine on Neogaf:

The N64 shipped 5.80 million total in:
1) 6 months for the USA
2) 9 months for Japan
3) 30 days for Europe

For its time, the N64 was actually I think the fastest selling game console. It was a monster out of the gates, but it faded because of the stupid cartridge only decision that choked the system away from having any third party support aside from like Acclaim.

True. N64 and GameCube are both poor comparisons, as both came out swinging and faded off later in life, for very similar reasons (although Nintendo's late-GameCube support was much poorer than either late N64 or even late Wii).

As far as software support goes, Wii U has nowhere to go but up, so unless its early troubles just kill all interest in the console and anything on it (no matter how compelling), its curve is going to be very different than any Nintendo home console's so far. N64, GC, and Wii all started comparatively strong and ended comparatively weak.