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tbone51 on 13 December 2012

Since Im a Nintendo fan i hope it does reach 100mil this year but if i had to guess with remaining weeks and how sales turned out so far my guess is 99mil 250k so in othr word 99.25



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Mummelmann on 13 December 2012

I say mid-february at the earliest and mid-march at the latest.



tbone51 on 13 December 2012

@ spugeon ryan!!! Not saying it wont,and to tell you the truth i want it to surpass over 100mil this month!



kitler53 on 13 December 2012

so when does it pass 250M?



Metallicube on 13 December 2012
kitler53 said:
so when does it pass 250M?

We'll have to get John Lucas back here with his updated "analysis" :P



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S.Peelman on 13 December 2012

I think it'll get to 99.5 before the end of this year. Which is too bad since sales will be terrible after January 1st, so somewhere in Februari it will be I guess. Overtaking PS1 is a given, and it will do it halfway through next year. It's only 4 million to go (102, VGC's 104 is incorrect). When discontinued, it'll be between 110m-120m. 120 easily if Nintendo gets around to publishing in other regions like Sony does.

kitler53 said:
so when does it pass 250M?

Lol. I think Nintendo still has this secret stash of 150m units somewhere safe .



S.Peelman on 13 December 2012
pezus said:
S.Peelman said:

I think it'll get to 99.5 before the end of this year. Which is too bad since sales will be terrible after January 1st, so somewhere in Februari it will be I guess. Overtaking PS1 is a given, and it will do it halfway through next year. It's only 4 million to go (102, VGC's 104 is incorrect). When discontinued, it'll be between 110m-120m. 120 easily if Nintendo gets around to publishing in other regions like Sony does.

kitler53 said:
so when does it pass 250M?

Lol. I think Nintendo still has this secret stash of 150m units somewhere safe .

PS1 was actually at 102.5m back in 2005. When did they discontinue it?

120m is never going to happen and 110+ is really stretching it imo. It will barely sell 3m next year

Italic: According to Wikipedia, the PlayStation ended at 102.49 and was discontinued on March 23rd 2006. The source for that sales figure is Sony themselves and published March 2007, so I guess that's correct.

Bold: Yes, it is stretching it I agree. And I'm optimistic, I say it'll still do past 4m next year . However, if there's one thing Nintendo should be copying, it's Sony distributing it's stuff all around the world .



Bong Lover on 13 December 2012

I think Nintendo should drop the price of the Wii to 39.99 and sell 100 million more to everyone who needs another Motion Plus remote.



postofficebuddy on 13 December 2012

Based on current weekly sales the most optimistic scenario I can see is 99.5 million by New Years. Realistically, probably closer to 99 million.



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S.Peelman on 13 December 2012
pezus said:
S.Peelman said:

Italic: According to Wikipedia, the PlayStation ended at 102.49 and was discontinued on March 23rd 2006. The source for that sales figure is Sony themselves and published March 2007, so I guess that's correct.

Bold: Yes, it is stretching it I agree. And I'm optimistic, I say it'll still do past 4m next year . However, if there's one thing Nintendo should be copying, it's Sony distributing it's stuff all around the world .

Bold: Where do you see that? I see the discontinued date, but where is the source that was published March 2007?

It is source #6. The footnote is next to the 'Units Sold' number in the infobox.

The source takes you to one of Sony's publications called PlayStation Cumulative Production Shipments of Hardware through this nifty thing called 'the Waybackmachine' because apparently the original web page doesn't exist anymore (you have to wait a few seconds before it finds it).

Anyway, you were correct about the 102.5 number in 2005. By that publication, it seems like that was their final shipment. Bringing it up from 101.73 to 102.49 for a last time. The source Wikipedia has for the discontinue-date (source #5) seems to be from an article by GameSpot, so that's a little less reliable than the Sony publication, but sadly I can't find anything else for the moment.