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softcoregamer82 on 19 January 2014
Vikki said:
I can see them hitting the half a billion mark in the next three-four years.

Interesting to see that Sony' only a couple of hundred million behind Nintendo despite entering the console race a decade later


Yeah, they have done excellent with home console sales.  Even the PS3 as a lowpoint will end up near 100 million.  Still, in fairness to Nintendo, it's not completely fair to compare today's console numbers with those from decades ago.  For example, the NES selling 61 million long before the video gaming market became nearly as big as it is today is impressive as hell.



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Vikki on 19 January 2014
softcoregamer82 said:
Vikki said:
I can see them hitting the half a billion mark in the next three-four years.

Interesting to see that Sony' only a couple of hundred million behind Nintendo despite entering the console race a decade later


Yeah, they have done excellent with home console sales.  Even the PS3 as a lowpoint will end up near 100 million.  Still, in fairness to Nintendo, it's not completely fair to compare today's console numbers with those from decades ago.  For example, the NES selling 61 million long before the video gaming market became nearly as big as it is today is impressive as hell.

I agree, but at the same time Nintendo didn't have much competition in North America and Japan until SEGA came out with the Master System.



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Anfebious on 19 January 2014
Turkish said:
Anfebious said:
I wonder when will they surpass Nintendo in that regard. Nintendo already has around 670 million units of hardware sold. It's estimated their software sold around 4 billion of units!

About the half a billion part I think they will reach that mark with the help of the PS4! They need to sell about 69 million consoles if I calculated things correctly. I think in 4 years it's totally possible.


Can you list how much each console sold?

Sure why not?

Nintendo DS: 154.88

Game Boy: 118.69

Wii: 100.95

Game Boy Advance: 81.51

Nintendo Entertainment System: 61.91

Super Nintendo Entertainment System: 49.10

Nintendo 3DS (up until now): 42.57

Nintendo 64: 32.93

Gamecube: 21.74

Wii U (up until now): 5.34

Total: 669.62



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Turkish on 19 January 2014
Anfebious said:
Turkish said:
Anfebious said:
I wonder when will they surpass Nintendo in that regard. Nintendo already has around 670 million units of hardware sold. It's estimated their software sold around 4 billion of units!

About the half a billion part I think they will reach that mark with the help of the PS4! They need to sell about 69 million consoles if I calculated things correctly. I think in 4 years it's totally possible.


Can you list how much each console sold?

Sure why not?

Nintendo DS: 154.88

Game Boy: 118.69

Wii: 100.95

Game Boy Advance: 81.51

Nintendo Entertainment System: 61.91

Super Nintendo Entertainment System: 49.10

Nintendo 3DS (up until now): 42.57

Nintendo 64: 32.93

Gamecube: 21.74

Wii U (up until now): 5.34

Total: 669.62


Thanks! Even if wii u failed Nintendo would still make it to 700 just with 3DS!



bucky1965 on 19 January 2014

And all it took was one console (ps3) to wipe out everything Sony made. Before someone asks for proof, just check Sony's financials.



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Somini on 19 January 2014
bucky1965 said:
And all it took was one console (ps3) to wipe out everything Sony made. Before someone asks for proof, just check Sony's financials.

Thing is, this thread is not about financials. We're discussing units sold here, mkay?



bucky1965 on 19 January 2014
Somini said:
bucky1965 said:
And all it took was one console (ps3) to wipe out everything Sony made. Before someone asks for proof, just check Sony's financials.

Thing is, this thread is not about financials. We're discussing units sold here, mkay?

They are a business, total units sold is meaningless if they go bankrupt.



Lafiel on 19 January 2014
bucky1965 said:
Somini said:
bucky1965 said:
And all it took was one console (ps3) to wipe out everything Sony made. Before someone asks for proof, just check Sony's financials.

Thing is, this thread is not about financials. We're discussing units sold here, mkay?

They are a business, total units sold is meaningless if they go bankrupt.

that has been discussed to death so there is no reason to force that topic onto this thread (as it usually ends in console wars/people getting banned anyway)



Somini on 19 January 2014
bucky1965 said:
Somini said:
bucky1965 said:
And all it took was one console (ps3) to wipe out everything Sony made. Before someone asks for proof, just check Sony's financials.

Thing is, this thread is not about financials. We're discussing units sold here, mkay?

They are a business, total units sold is meaningless if they go bankrupt.


Still that is not the subject of this thread. Make a topic if you want to discuss that.

 

The website has this rule about posting on topic. So if you want to participate it'd be better if you discussed the topic itself. Getting banned over this is not worth it.



platformmaster918 on 19 January 2014
Vikki said:
I can see them hitting the half a billion mark in the next three-four years.

Interesting to see that Sony' only a couple of hundred million behind Nintendo despite entering the console race a decade later

and not having handhelds for far longer than that




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