Pineapple said:
retroking1981 said:
Well it shipped 770,000 in its 1/2 FY on the market.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Not at all, thanks for the information, seems it did better than I thought.
So Japan sold through all their shipments and 1 of those unsold 64K from the Americas was what I got off eBay 
Whats the 'others' data he has? I thought JAP/NA were the only markets to get it?
