Nintendo plans to ship 14 million consoles during this year (which seems to be the low end of their estimate), it will most likely be 15 or 16 million this year. Going by the chart for the PS1 and PS2 we can see that both in year 1 and 2 Nintendo is shipping more consoles then the PS1 and PS2 shipped which is kind of interesting don't ya think?
Some neat things from the chart... They shipped 102.54 Million PS1's since it was released and by the end of the year they will have shipped 127.89 million PS2's. I'm a little surprised that they still expect PS2 sales to be high for awhile. They might still ship decent numbers for the PS2 for at least another 3 years.
Now there are some oddities in the numbers for the PS3, according to what's in the chart, they shipped 5.5 million PS3's from November 2006 to March 2007, they expect to ship another 11 million by next March. This would put them at a total of 16.5 million shipped consoles with sales expectations of around 13-14 million (to the home). In other words, they expect to sell 10 million consoles from now to the end of March 2008. I don't know if they can do that... there will be a lot of stuffing if they attempt to even ship 11 million consoles to the retailers. I'm not sure how well that will go over for them. I'm pretty sure Microsoft pissed off enough retailers when they did it last year.
Prepare for termination! It is the only logical thing to do, for I am only loyal to Megatron.
