TheMoon
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it's a console everywhere but message boards where people love to argue about hardware power.
Nintendo software and hardware sales data from 1983 to present
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it's a console everywhere but message boards where people love to argue about hardware power.
Milly Osworth
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1983 the best year 🤓
Ah ah didn't think about it.
Almost tempted to do a new category otherwise maybe home console (it's not really that important the classification).
I've updated OP with the data as March 2017.
A few interesting tidbits from the past fiscal year:
- Nintendo discontinued WiiU in October 2016 therefore WiiU final hardware LTD is 13.56 million units.
- 3DS total hardware sales overtook NES total hardware sales.
- Both 3DS software and hardware sales in the past FY were up YoY which is surprising for a console in its 6th year.
- Now Nintendo has sold more than 700 million consoles in its history.
- If Nintendo's forecast for 3DS total software sales for the current fiscal year hold true then 3DS total software is poised to surpass the ones from SNES and GBA.
Due to disappointing 3DS software sales and lack of third-party support outside Japan this achievement wasn't certain in fact the main contributor is first-party software sales which are far bigger than GBA and SNES.
3DS first-party/total software sales ratio is close to 50% while GBA and SNES ones are around 23%-25%.
- If we consider that 1 2 Switch is close to 1 million then in the first month Switch first party/total software tie ratio is more than 65%.
- After 8 years New Super Mario Bros Wii has finally broke the 30M threshold.
- The only DS games to ship more units were Pokémon Diamond/Pearl and Pokémon Black/White (very small quantities though).
- NES Classic Mini shipped 2.30M units in 5 months.
It's hard to come by sales for plug & play retro consoles but from what I gathered Atari Flashback 2 was among the best selling ones with almost 1 million sales in North America.
NES Classic Mini surpassed this record (admittedly NES Classic Mini was available worldwide) in a few months and with demand still outstripping offer.
Nintendo announced to have discontinued NES Classic Mini so it's final LTD unless Nintendo resume production at a latter time.
A few interesting tidbits from the past fiscal year:
- Nintendo discontinued WiiU in October 2016 therefore WiiU final hardware LTD is 13.56 million units.
- 3DS total hardware sales overtook NES total hardware sales.
- Both 3DS software and hardware sales in the past FY were up YoY which is surprising for a console in its 6th year.
- Now Nintendo has sold more than 700 million consoles in its history.
- If Nintendo's forecast for 3DS total software sales for the current fiscal year hold true then 3DS total software is poised to surpass the ones from SNES and GBA.
Due to disappointing 3DS software sales and lack of third-party support outside Japan this achievement wasn't certain in fact the main contributor is first-party software sales which are far bigger than GBA and SNES.
3DS first-party/total software sales ratio is close to 50% while GBA and SNES ones are around 23%-25%.
- If we consider that 1 2 Switch is close to 1 million then in the first month Switch first party/total software tie ratio is more than 65%.
- After 8 years New Super Mario Bros Wii has finally broke the 30M threshold.
- The only DS games to ship more units were Pokémon Diamond/Pearl and Pokémon Black/White (very small quantities though).
- NES Classic Mini shipped 2.30M units in 5 months.
It's hard to come by sales for plug & play retro consoles but from what I gathered Atari Flashback 2 was among the best selling ones with almost 1 million sales in North America.
NES Classic Mini surpassed this record (admittedly NES Classic Mini was available worldwide) in a few months and with demand still outstripping offer.
Nintendo announced to have discontinued NES Classic Mini so it's final LTD unless Nintendo resume production at a latter time.
Choose to add a "Hybrid console" category because if Nintendo decide to do stationary-only or handheld-only revision of Switch (which play the same software) then it wouldn't make sense to put Switch under one of the two existing category.
Which is not so mad for third party if we consider the "fact" that they're not really yet on board.
These games that are not Zelda, 1 2S , Snipperclips... still had to do 35% software sales.
Shikamaru Ninja
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No official numbers for 1-2 Switch to include? It's definitely hitting a million.
It's almost to 1M.
I will include it next May (2018) when it officially becomes a million seller.
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Thanks for keeping this updated, Celine.
Adam_Roman
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Seeing the top sellers on Wii, it's no wonder Nintendo wanted to keep the Wii name alive in the Wii U. Sports Resort/Play/Fit all sold incredibly well.
TheMoon
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Or why they launched with NSMBU.
JoeyJungle
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@ that last graph with revenue/operating income/net income, for 3/17 how can net income be so much higher than operating income? Even assuming a $0 tax via writing off their losses from previous years, what would make the net income go up higher than the operating income?
ArkhamFantasy
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Nintendo handhelds are all beasts.
And the GBA had one of the shortest life spans, right?
ZSaberLink
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Yup. That's why it's kind of sad the 3DS will probably be like 10M short of it in terms of hardware sales
.Extraordinary income due to the Seattle Marines sale.
Yup. That's why it's kind of sad the 3DS will probably be like 10M short of it in terms of hardware sales
It is not bad at all, considering the shift that occurred in mobile gaming in the past 5 years.
SporeCrawler
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and DS.. incredible how dominant nintendo was back in those days and incredible how they have fallen since
ArkhamFantasy
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Its really crazy how big of a difference there is between Wii U launch and Switch launch. Especially when you take into account the Wii U was being sold for a loss and Switch is being sold for a profit.
I thought the Switch would be fine, but i thought it would struggle at $299 in its current form. I thought next year it would get different revisions (like a dockless sku and maybe a slim) along with a price drop, that combined with Pokemon/Animal Crossing/Fire Emblem/etc would be the big turnaround like event that the 3DS had early on in its life. But the Switch is already doing that at $299, without multiple sku's, with pretty much just a multiplat Zelda. Imagine what is going to happen when it starts getting its big exclusives, when the price goes down, its going to be crazy.
Before Switch launch i was wondering whether this would be Nintendos last hardware, now im wondering if they'll ever stop.
I thought the Switch would be fine, but i thought it would struggle at $299 in its current form. I thought next year it would get different revisions (like a dockless sku and maybe a slim) along with a price drop, that combined with Pokemon/Animal Crossing/Fire Emblem/etc would be the big turnaround like event that the 3DS had early on in its life. But the Switch is already doing that at $299, without multiple sku's, with pretty much just a multiplat Zelda. Imagine what is going to happen when it starts getting its big exclusives, when the price goes down, its going to be crazy.
Before Switch launch i was wondering whether this would be Nintendos last hardware, now im wondering if they'll ever stop.
Except 3DS.
Updated 3DS chart and related graphs with missing Super Mario Maker for 3DS sales.
EDIT:
Don't think it's possible.
Will look if it is possible to do it in Excel.
EDIT:
Don't think it's possible.
foxuzamaki
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Nintendo knows how to make bank in this industry
TheMoon
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remember how 3DS was doomed to fail completely because phones would crush it? 2011 was fun.
Including 3DS.
3DS went up against a mobile centric world, in all honestly the 3DS' performance is pretty incredible.
It's going to end up 10 million less than the fucking PSP. It was a failure regardless of how you spin it.
Principate
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I mean the psp successor exists, have a look how it performed in this climate.
Eolz
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But it's not. A disappointment for sure, but they managed well considering the time period. And it's far from a disappointment or failure in Japan as well.
A failure would be the Vita for example. Or the WiiU for home consoles.
TheMoon
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The following:
Is why. There's no need to spin anything. It's remarkable that it did as well as it does and even just had an uptick YoY now. Context matters.
The era that came in late/after PS2/GBA will forever be the peak performance for the dedicated gaming device market.
ZSaberLink
Media Create Maven
Maybe not forever due to some unforeseen event, but at least for a very very long time. Given how Nintendo still doesn't ship to so many companies (and their European and South American operations aren't all that great), there is at least some possibility of overall growth.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
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Perfect!
Thanks once again for the great job you've done with this thread, it's an extremely useful resource
joecanada
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My qualifier is overall sales. I predicted about 50 million for switch but that was based on switch cannibalizing 3ds sales and ending WiiU of course .
So as this thread shows about 80 million for WiiU plus 3ds I feel pretty good about my prediction , maybe it was 50-60 can't recall right now ,. However I stated that was a decline in their overall sales and I feel Nintendo would only be semi happy with that . I see it as a contraction in their market share but they could still sell more than 60 too...
Unless 3ds had bad software sales and they make it up that way. A lot could still happen
JoeyJungle
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Forgot about that, thanks!
1st Course
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Has Nintendo removed the historical data page? I can't find it through their IR site anymore.
Vulcano's assistant
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I like how there are like 10k people with the switch version of Zelda waiting for the system to be available.
Tavernacle12
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I think the assumption is that's LE sales that people are keeping mint or some such.