Farsala said:
so you call 2003 domination by playstation? |
It's hard to match dates exactly, but 2003 might be the only year Sony shipped more hardware units to Japan than Nintendo.
FY ending March 2004 there were:
4.28m PS2 shipped (this was production shipments as Sony didn't report shipments to retail at the time)
3.15m GBA shipped
0.99m GC shipped
The data ends in March and it's slightly different (production vs shipped) but there will be at least a full 12 month period around that time where Sony was in the lead in units sold. (there may have been some PS1 shipments as well, but I don't have any estimates)
I haven't looked into it in detail for shipments but based on VGC sales data 2010 looks to be essentially a tie as well.... I suspect in terms of quarterly shipments Nintendo probably remains ahead but if it were possible to break it down there may have been a 12 month period ending just before the 3DS started shipping where Sony leads.... that being said it was more just convenient timing based on hardware releases, the DS was likely still selling more software than all the others combined so probably hard to call it playstation domination.
