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Bofferbrauer2 on 29 September 2017
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Soundwave said:

GameCube outsold the Wii in basically the same period. Nintendo for sure undershipped the fuck outta that thing, lol. 1.77 mill N64s in basically three months is not bad, not bad at all especially for 1996, that must've been a record for any game hardware at that time and would still be a healthy number today. 

What did the PS1 sell in 3 months? Not trying to make a point, I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if it was lower due to the PS1 being a new company system. What about SNES though? That probably sold more in it's first 3 months. 

Also 1.77 mil would be terrible by todays standards. Xbox One sold like 2.4 mil in two months

Edit : I was wrong. Xbox One actually sold 3 million by the end of 2013. So roughly half of Xbox One numbers ...

PS1 had a very slow start until the release of FF VII, so I'm pretty sure GC would be in front of it, too.

Wii is also low because it only released in North America on November 20, but only in early December in the rest of the world (Japan December 2nd, Europe December 8th), so it's a couple weeks short of the other consoles launching in the holiday season.



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StarDoor on 29 September 2017
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Soundwave said:

GameCube outsold the Wii in basically the same period. Nintendo for sure undershipped the fuck outta that thing, lol. 1.77 mill N64s in basically three months is not bad, not bad at all especially for 1996, that must've been a record for any game hardware at that time and would still be a healthy number today. 

What did the PS1 sell in 3 months? Not trying to make a point, I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if it was lower due to the PS1 being a new company system. What about SNES though? That probably sold more in it's first 3 months. 

Also 1.77 mil would be terrible by todays standards. Xbox One sold like 2.4 mil in two months

Edit : I was wrong. Xbox One actually sold 3 million by the end of 2013. So roughly half of Xbox One numbers ...

PS1 sold 514,015 in its first 4 months in the US. It launched on September 9th, 1995. It also sold just 2,044,047 during all of 1996, so it was almost beaten by N64's three months in that year.

SNES likely sold a little less than N64 did in its first three months, since it had slightly lower shipments to North America than N64 in its first fiscal year, and it launched during August, so December + the last week of November wouldn't be included in its first three months. Not that it matters, since N64 probably sold more in 1996 than SNES did in all of 1991 anyways.

Also, Xbox One sold 1,817,000 in its first two months in 2013, not 3 million.



AngryLittleAlchemist on 29 September 2017
Bofferbrauer2 said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

What did the PS1 sell in 3 months? Not trying to make a point, I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if it was lower due to the PS1 being a new company system. What about SNES though? That probably sold more in it's first 3 months. 

Also 1.77 mil would be terrible by todays standards. Xbox One sold like 2.4 mil in two months

Edit : I was wrong. Xbox One actually sold 3 million by the end of 2013. So roughly half of Xbox One numbers ...

PS1 had a very slow start until the release of FF VII, so I'm pretty sure GC would be in front of it, too.

Wii is also low because it only released in North America on November 20, but only in early December in the rest of the world (Japan December 2nd, Europe December 8th), so it's a couple weeks short of the other consoles launching in the holiday season.

 

StarDoor said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

What did the PS1 sell in 3 months? Not trying to make a point, I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if it was lower due to the PS1 being a new company system. What about SNES though? That probably sold more in it's first 3 months. 

Also 1.77 mil would be terrible by todays standards. Xbox One sold like 2.4 mil in two months

Edit : I was wrong. Xbox One actually sold 3 million by the end of 2013. So roughly half of Xbox One numbers ...

PS1 sold 514,015 in its first 4 months in the US. It launched on September 9th, 1995. It also sold just 2,044,047 during all of 1996, so it was almost beaten by N64's three months in that year.

SNES likely sold a little less than N64 did in its first three months, since it had slightly lower shipments to North America than N64 in its first fiscal year, and it launched during August, so December + the last week of November wouldn't be included in its first three months. Not that it matters, since N64 probably sold more in 1996 than SNES did in all of 1991 anyways.

Also, Xbox One sold 1,817,000 in its first two months in 2013, not 3 million.

To be fair, as I said I kind of expected that of the PS1. I was just genuinely curious, just asking a question.

So does that mean the 64 started out great but petered out?

Also no, it sold 3 mil https://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-one-sold-3-million-units-in-2013-microsoft-says/1100-6416955/



StarDoor on 29 September 2017
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

PS1 had a very slow start until the release of FF VII, so I'm pretty sure GC would be in front of it, too.

Wii is also low because it only released in North America on November 20, but only in early December in the rest of the world (Japan December 2nd, Europe December 8th), so it's a couple weeks short of the other consoles launching in the holiday season.

 

StarDoor said:

PS1 sold 514,015 in its first 4 months in the US. It launched on September 9th, 1995. It also sold just 2,044,047 during all of 1996, so it was almost beaten by N64's three months in that year.

SNES likely sold a little less than N64 did in its first three months, since it had slightly lower shipments to North America than N64 in its first fiscal year, and it launched during August, so December + the last week of November wouldn't be included in its first three months. Not that it matters, since N64 probably sold more in 1996 than SNES did in all of 1991 anyways.

Also, Xbox One sold 1,817,000 in its first two months in 2013, not 3 million.

To be fair, as I said I kind of expected that of the PS1. I was just genuinely curious, just asking a question.

So does that mean the 64 started out great but petered out?

Also no, it sold 3 mil https://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-one-sold-3-million-units-in-2013-microsoft-says/1100-6416955/

We're talking about sales in the United States only. The article in your link explicitly says "three million units worldwide".

And yes, N64 did start out great before losing steam. It's Nintendo's most front-loaded console in terms of sales.



AngryLittleAlchemist on 29 September 2017
StarDoor said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

 

To be fair, as I said I kind of expected that of the PS1. I was just genuinely curious, just asking a question.

So does that mean the 64 started out great but petered out?

Also no, it sold 3 mil https://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-one-sold-3-million-units-in-2013-microsoft-says/1100-6416955/

We're talking about sales in the United States only. The article in your link explicitly says "three million units worldwide".

Oh yeah, sorry. Somewhere in the convo I lost track of that, guess it was because we just started saying sales instead of NA or US. My bad



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vivster on 29 September 2017

Excluding the biggest software seller and not aligning launch years sure makes for great numbers.



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DialgaMarine on 29 September 2017
Pavolink said:
Switch is the second succesful story of the year, only behind BotW. This year is only about Nintendo.

That's a pretty narrow statement. Great year for Nintendo, no doubt, but only Nintendo? If you're a Nintendo-only user who refuses to enjoy anything else, sure, but no real gamer is gamer is going to ignore what PS4 has brought to the table this year, or the major third party experiences that are not on Switch. 



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Miyamotoo on 29 September 2017

Here is point about calendar year, and we know that all Nintendo home consoles are released around end of year so its not best comparison, but this also means that Switch have better SW sales than GBA or 3DS.



fedfed on 29 September 2017

good for Nintny they need it this after WiiU



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kopstudent89 on 29 September 2017
StarDoor said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

This is a whole lot of nothing sandwich. How much consoles did Nintendo sell when the 64(or whatever this 1995 launch is) launched in the US?

Total sales in launch calendar year:
Nintendo 64 (September 1996): 1,771,791
Game Boy Advance (June 2001): 4,746,422
GameCube (November 2001): 1,236,059
Nintendo DS (November 2004): 1,200,000
Wii (November 2006): 1,080,000
Nintendo 3DS (March 2011): 4,112,000
Wii U (November 2012):  890,000

GBA was a beast in America