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Pineapple on 22 October 2013
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retroking1981 said:
t3mporary_126 said:
Shadow1980 said:
morenoingrato said:
Nintendo, I think you may have missed one console up there.


Which one? They got the NES, SNES, N64, GC, Wii, and Wii U, so that covers all the home systems, and they got the Game Boy (the GB Color is included in their GB numbers), GBA, DS, and 3DS, which covers all their handhelds.

 


Well it shipped 770,000 in its 1/2 FY on the market.

 

Actually, they discuss this in the thread linked to in the OP. The creator of the thread on Neogaf (who called Nintendo and got all the data, so he seems very trustworthy) said

""

Internally, the Virtual Boy was a failure that Nintendo doesn't like to recognize. As a result, they didn't give me any information it.

However, I do have some data on the console.

That "770,000 shipments" figure you often see thrown around is wildly inaccurate. It's another example of that esoteric, vague data I was talking about.

I have some figures that I believe are much more accurate to the truth. However, these didn't come directly from Nintendo Co. Ltd.,'s internal archives, so I can't guarantee their accuracy.

VIRTUAL BOY

Lifetime worldwide shipments: 1.26 million

Shipments (Japan) - 0.63 million
Shipments (The Americas) - 0.56 million
Shipments (Other) - 0.07 million

Here is the sell-through information I have on Virtual Boy:

Japanese Sales, Lifetime: 630,000
USA Sales, Lifetime: 496,000

I can vouch that the 496K is the actual number NPD has in its archives for Virtual Boy LTD sales.

""

 

Edit: This might seem a bit rude, so I'll point out that's in no way my intention. Up until reading that thread, I completely bought the 770k figure as well.