Gameboy: Approximately 120 million

GBA: 80 milion+

DS: 55 million and growing

N64: 32 million

GC: 21 million

Wii: 14 million

That is blatant cheating to "prove" the Wii will fail. The DS has been around for three times as long as the Wii. 

Yes, it's so blatant, and I would have gotten away with it too were it not for you meddling kids!

I said the DS was still growing because it's selling at a phenomenal rate. The Wii is selling fast but not at the crazy level the DS is.

Hell, I could have put that the Gamecube was still selling, because it technically is.

Do you mean sales of the DS now, or sales of the DS in its first year?

Now.

See, I like things simple.

Oh, now I see what you're going to say. Interesting. 

Give the Wii a couple more years. If it sells less than 40 million, then I would say it's not doing as well as the DS.

Sorry whoever doesn't want bad analogies.

You are in a room with about 25 people but it is filled. You are getting a lot of attention. There is renovations to the room and it is made larger and 80 more people come in. Do you have less attention now? Yes. But have you ceased to exist? No.

Stop complaining that the Wii is ruining gaming.

NES: 60 million

Gameboy (and Game Boy Color combined): Approximately 120 million

SNES: 50 million

N64: 32 million

GBA: 80 milion+

GC: 21 million

DS: 55 million and growing than anything ever

Wii: 14 million and growing than anything but the DS



There fixed it. You left out the NES and the SNES because they were too successful, and you changed the order to show a constant downward trend that isn't there.

PS2: Approximately 120 million

PS1: 118 Million+

PSP: 23 million and growing

PS3: 5 million

Oh oops. I got distracted with another thread and this conversation moved on without me. Well, meh.

Did you all read the article though? I thought it was a pretty good analysis. Amount of buttons aside, most controllers scare non-gamers and the Wii controller doesn't. That's the whole revolution right there.

They tried it with the GameCube, one giant fat green (means go) button, and some baby buttons around it, and it still scared non-gamers. But instead of giving up they went 10x more simple with the next controller and now anybody can use it.

Making the Wii and its remote shaped like a DVD player and a TV remote were genius. It was the same brilliant strategy behind making the NES and its weird loading dock shaped like a crappy VCR. Games scare people in general. TV doesn't. Make it look like an innocent TV game thing, and people will gobble it up. It's working again.