Consider it done.

It is done.

52-week sales in Japan: 4,785,408 (exact Media Create data, shipments as of March 31st: 5,980,000)
52-week sales in the Americas: 6,489,437 (USA sales from NPD as of March 30th 2002: 6,036,026, shipments as of March 31st: 7,570,000)
52-week sales in Other regions: 3,646,499 (Shipments as of March 31st 2002: 4,610,000)
52-week worldwide sales: 14,921,343 (Shipments as of March 31st 2002: 18,160,000)

So the Gameboy Advance was one of the fastest selling consoles ever? Right? It just got cut off quickly ? Cause that's what I hear a lot, but you're the sales expert. Those "fake" numbers look pretty good though

Yeah, I think that's an accurate statement. When looking solely at the first years of all consoles, Game Boy Advance is the fastest-selling. GBA still holds up well afterward, but it falls behind Wii at the beginning of its second year, DS in the middle of its second year, PS4 at the end of its third year, and PS2 at the beginning of its fourth year. The next console it falls behind is the PS1 at the end of its sixth year, over two years after it was already succeeded by DS.

GBA definitely sold very quickly; it's Nintendo's third best-selling console all the way up until its 11th year (at which point it had already been discontinued,) which is when the original Game Boy passes 81.51 million.

If you take into account that
1) GBA got a successor after only 3 years and 9 months,
2) GBA sold over 58 million during that time (58.13M in shipments from March 2001 to September 2004: Only three holiday seasons), and
3) GBA sold 15.4 million during the fiscal year in which DS launched,

I think it's fair to say that GBA could have sold much more had DS not cut its legs off.

If this is to be believed, then the shipments will grow quite a bit next year: https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20171005PD202.html

Not sure where they got this 20m consoles shipped in 2017 figure though.

20 million would be quite good. Is that real?

I have no idea. The last one I heard was 18 Millions (upped from 16 mostly to get better deals for the different parts), so 20 ain't too far away.

2017 in this case is probably FY 2017, which ends on March 31, not December 31

I have no idea, and considering how slowly the supply went up, I find it pretty dubious to be frank. But should Nintendo achieve that then the Switch will have hell of an holiday season!

Retagging for my buddy.

sorry to annoy but does anyone know when the hardware sales will update? i thought they usually update the same time as global software does but its been a while :3