Official Nintendo Sales Revealed

Nintendo has released official sales numbers for their hardware platforms in their recent earnings filing.

Of note, worldwide sales are as follows:

Wii 13.17M
DS 53.64M

See attached image for page of interest.
Information is on page 20/20 in the filing.

[shmee]

u can see that Wii is around 13.2 B .
ps3 around 5.6B

Now what to make of VGCHARTS?

[bym051d]

Actually, vgchartz.com is pretty close.

Wii 12.73M
DS 52.23M

[ARBitrator]

Hey,

I don't think any of them had a capital "B" in their figures.

[bym051d]

Something else interesting:

There are 53M DSes out there with 250M pieces of software sold for an average software to console ratio of 5:1.

There are 13M Wii out there with 65M pieces of software sold for an average software to console ratio of 5:1.

Lots of Wii software may be shovelware crap, but people are buying it, in the same ratios of DS software.

Personally, I have 10+ DS games, but only 3 Wii games. Do these figures include Wii Sports pack-ins?

[bym051d]

To reply to myself, the notes at the bottom read:

2 Actual sales units of software include quantity bundled with hardware.

So, part of the Wii number does include Wii sports. Hopefully, the DS numbers don't include pictochat. :)

[ItsDubC]

Keep in mind that Wii Sports is not bundled with the Wii in Japan.

[Kholinar]

Also keep in mind that a lot of online sales were large bundles... for a while it seemed like that was the only way to get a wii, since a lot of stores' online shops refused to sell them any other way (Walmart, Target, etc.)...

[PS360WII]

13 million. Very nice indeed with 5 games per system alright alright.

It wasn't to long ago when DS cross the 50 million marker and the already have 3 more million added in. Whew that thing sells like crack!

[IdleLeeSiuLung]

I thought the software attach rate for the wii was around 4.x and PS3 about 3.x. The 360 should have the higest being around 5-6.x

[bym051d]

I guess that's why it's good to see the actual numbers sometimes instead of the estimates.

Maybe we'll see Sony and MS's numbers in the near future.

[ITR]

Target lists the Wii Attach rate at 4.0-4.5 on avg.

[Almighty]

So basically Nintendo is the most powerful Japanese company now. Kudos for them.

[xionpunk]

Good for them but damn , i cant figure out how they convinced people to buy this thing , considering its basically a gamecube (a little better graphically) with motion controls. Holy $hit Nintendo is Genius, and now have money hats.

[ItsDubC]

Let's hear your argument as to why the PS3/360 aren't just PS2s/Xboxes w/ better graphics and more expensive games.

[blynx182]

Every so-called "hardcore" gaming fan out there is quick to say that the wii is just a gamecube 1.5 while conveniently forgetting its actually an IMPROVEMENT over the cube, while the 360 and ps3 are really not.

[DeckUKold]

they finally stop hiding they stuff whoever did the 8. X360/8.9 wii was a retard and nintendo how did u do that that's crazy