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Nintendo.co.jp posted a press release on 100M DS series sold in 4 years 3 months and 2 weeks:

(http://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/2009/090311.html)

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2009年3月11日
任天堂株式会社
ニンテンドーDSシリーズ1億台販売
任天堂株式会社(社長:岩田聡、本社:京都市南区)は、このたびニンテンドーDSシリーズの当社グループからの全世界累計販売台数が、3月6日時点で1億台を超えましたのでお知らせします。

 2004年11月21日の発売から、4年3ヶ月と2週間でのニンテンドーDSシリーズの1億台突破は、家庭用ビデオゲーム機史上最速ペースでの広がりとなります。

 当社は、ニンテンドーDSシリーズの新しい一員であるニンテンドーDSiの国外展開を来月早々から始めますが、これからも、多くの皆様のご愛顧にお応えできるよう、新鮮な面白さや驚きをお客様にお届けしながら、「一家に一台」から「お一人様に一台」ご愛用いただけることを目指します。


[ご参考]
当社では過去に、「ゲームボーイ」シリーズが、1989年4月21日の日本発売から約11年と2ヶ月経過した2000年6月に1億台を達成しております。ただし、この当時は、単体ベースでの決算が主でしたので、この成果も日本の任天堂(株)からの販売が基準となっており、当社海外子会社への出荷分も含んでの内容でした。
この「ゲームボーイ」シリーズの全世界累計販売台数は、1億1,800万台まで伸びました。
その後、機能を向上した「ゲームボーイアドバンス」を2001年3月に発売しており、そのシリーズ全世界累計販売台数は、8,100万台となっています。
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So considering their number is (most probably) shipped do we have it slightly overtracked ?



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Well.. I seldom read press release, but my understanding to the term "販売" means "sales" not "shipped".



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DarthMithrandir said:
Well.. I seldom read press release, but my understanding to the term "販売" means "sales" not "shipped".

To a corporation, a sale is when they sell it to a distributor. If they said consumer sales, then they would be talking about the same number we are.

EDIT: however, sometimes they play stupid games and use different metrics in press statements rather than financial statements, so since I can't understand japanese I can't give a difinitive answer. But since they would want to give the biggest number possible, shipments seems to make more sense.

As for if we are over/under tracking I don't have a clue, because I don't feel like figuring out when 4 years 3 months and 2 weeks was.

 




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According to the pr, it reached 100M on March 6th, counting from November 21st, 2004

"2004年11月21日の発売から、4年3ヶ月と2週間でのニンテンドーDSシリーズの1億台突破は、家庭用ビデオゲーム機史上最速ペースでの広がりとなります。"



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Well it shows 06.03 on graph and we have 99.51 with not full 03.07 data which will probably mean another 200k to our sales.

So either Nintendo gave real sales number and VGC is spot on or they gave shipped and VGC is 200-300k too high probably.



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If VGC was 300k too high -- that would be a margin of error of 0.3%.

In other words, pretty dad-gum impressive.

My guess is that it is close since I doubt there is much DSi stock on the shelf and at least in the US, DS Lite stock just started rebuilding inventory from the holidays last month. So a low amount in the supply chain would not be totally unexpected.

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Be about right really. We all know DS's are in fairly short supply, and tend to sell-out pretty quickly. VG might be 1-2m over - which is an error of 1-2% ;)



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