IR release is out!  Expectations for April 1, 2010 to March 31, 2011....

Nintendo DS (includes DS Lite, DSi, DSi XL and 3DS)

Hardware: 30,000,000

Software: 150,000,000

Wii

Hardware: 18,000,000

Software: 165,000,000

ltd figures as of March 31, 2010

Nintendo DS (includes DS Lite, DSi and DSi XL)

Hardware: 128,890,000

Software: 718,500,000

Wii

Hardware: 70,930,000

Software: 544,830,000

Aren't they a little overambitious with their DS estimates, especially now that a successor to the DS is supposedly coming out this fall?

that includes 3DS according to OP

Software sales for the fiscal year...

Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver: 8,400,000

Tomodachi Collection: 3,200,000

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: 2,610,000

Wii Sports Resort: 16,140,000

New Super Mario Bros. Wii: 14,700,000

Wii Fit Plus: 12,650,000

114 total DS million sellers

79 total Wii million sellers

Any way to extrapolate the 3DS sales forecast?

How much did the NDS sell last year?

Wii is a software beast.

Our numbers (ending 27th march) seem right taking into account shipped vs sold, only Pokémon is quite a bit undertracked.


Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver: 8,400,000 / VG Chartz 5,634,716 ----- 6,163,273 (3rd april)

Tomodachi Collection: 3,200,000 / VG Chartz 3,061,999

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: 2,610,000 / VG Chartz 2,099,773



Wii Sports Resort: 16,140,000 / VG Chartz 14,463,545

New Super Mario Bros. Wii: 14,700,000 / VG Chartz 13,227,886

Wii Fit Plus: 12,650,000 / VG Chartz 11,074,472

Well, for last year...

Nintendo DS (includes DS Lite, DSi and DSi XL)

Hardware: 27,110,000

Software: 151,590,000

Wii

Hardware: 20,530,000

Software: 191,810,000

So in the fiscal year 2010 there was this many Wiis and DS shipped in the fiscal year and do correct me if my math is wrong.

Wii- 20.53 million
NDS- 27.11 million

Not bad at all there especially considering how slow the middle part of the year was for both Wii and DS. Software wise, some of those numbers are just ungodly. Might be under estimating Heartgold/Soulsilver sales though.

Also interesting to see them grouping 3DS with the DS. Might be doing that right now just for the sake of beefing up the number as I doubt the 3DS is meant to be just another DS model. That's my take on that matter.

Yeah, they're likely including the 3DS figures to obfuscate any insight as to launch date. If they said they expected say 6-8 million for 3DS, we could probably forecast a holiday launch worldwide off that for example. If they said just 2-3 million, that probably means Japan this holiday, and the west next spring.