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LuStaysTru on 29 September 2009

These are huge landmarks and they both are on the verge of being reached.....less than 10 million consoles each!

At one point the NES was synonymous with home video game consoles as was the GameBoy with handhelds.

Looks like a bright future for Nintendo but which milestone do you think Nintendo will meet first and how soon?



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Avinash_Tyagi on 29 September 2009

Do you have a link to the total Game boy shipments? Been searching for them



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

LuStaysTru on 29 September 2009

118.69 million units for GameBoy and GameBoy Color. That's the figure from wiki



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Avinash_Tyagi on 29 September 2009

DS will almost certainly reach there first, but both will certainly do it by the end of the fiscal year



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

LuStaysTru on 29 September 2009

Generally i would agree but with the Wii price cut expect a sudden surge in sales.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 29 September 2009
LuStaysTru said:
Generally i would agree but with the Wii price cut expect a sudden surge in sales.


  I agree it sales will surge, and its possible it could get here first, but its hard to bet against DS, that thing is a monster, still I wouldn't be surprised if both manage to pass the marks before new years



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

Zucas on 29 September 2009

I'd suspect both should be able to do it by the end of the year. Nintendo will definitely ship at least 10 million more DS and 5-6 million more Wiis. Actually that's silly, of course they'll hit those numbers in shipments. Sales wise will definitely occur as well. Both Wii and DS should have quite a good holiday season with a large selection of games and new competitive aspects compared to last holiday season.



efestione on 29 September 2009

Both will reach nes and gameboy by the end of the year. Wii has good chance to pass ps2 someday



Nintendogamer on 29 September 2009

Wii needs to pass 61.9 million in order to surpass NES and DS needs to surpass 118.69 million to outsell gameboy sales, which is very likely considering the DSi is the ideal christmas gift :D



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atma998 on 29 September 2009

I wonder if the DS will manage to do a 2mil+ week sales like it did last year.