It's that time again—Nintendo of America has updated their launch-to-date sales information, for the benefit of all the industry-watchers out there wondering just how many millions of Nintendo consoles are out there. (Noticeably absent is the recently-released Wii, but Nintendo did release some details on Wii's performance yesterday.)
As usual, U.S. numbers are tracked by NPD, and worldwide numbers by Nintendo Co., Ltd.
As usual, U.S. numbers are tracked by NPD, and worldwide numbers by Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Nintendo DS
- U.S. hardware: 6.63 million units
- U.S. software: 21.42 million units
- U.S. software/hardware ratio: 3.23 to 1
- Worldwide hardware: 26.82 million units
- Worldwide software: 103.60 million units
- Worldwide software/hardware ratio: 3.86 to 1
Nintendo GameCube
- U.S. hardware: 11.36 million units
- U.S. software: 99.64 million units
- U.S. software/hardware ratio: 8.77 to 1
- Worldwide hardware: 21.2 million units
- Worldwide software: 198.05 million units
- Worldwide software/hardware ratio: 9.34 to 1
Game Boy Advance
- U.S. hardware: 33.63 million units
- U.S. software: 155.59 million units
- U.S. software/hardware ratio: 4.63 to 1
- Worldwide hardware: 76.79 million units
- Worldwide software: 347.53 million units
- Worldwide software/hardware ratio: 4.53 to 1
All Systems
- Worldwide hardware: more than 387 million units
- Worldwide software: nearly 2.2 billion units
- Total Mario series, worldwide: more than 193 million units
- Total Zelda series, worldwide: more than 47 million units
- Total Metroid series, worldwide: more than 13 million units
- Total Pokémon series, worldwide: more than 155 million units
- Total Donkey Kong series, worldwide: more than 48 million units