Post by: Jonnyboy117 on July 24, 2006, 05:18:52 AM
Nintendo News: The World Goes Portable with Nintendo DS - 21 Million Sold!
REDMOND, Wash., July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Nintendo delivers on its promise to bring video gaming to the masses. In less than two years since its Nov. 21, 2004 launch, Nintendo has sold more than 21 million Nintendo DS™ systems worldwide. By comparison, Apple® shipped one million of its ever- popular iPod® music players in its first 19 months. The rate of Nintendo DS units being sold equates to 23 systems per minute -- that's nearly one every two seconds -- non-stop since launch.
"We're thrilled to be announcing this milestone today," says George Harrison, Nintendo of America's senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications, "especially since Nintendo DS was North America's top-selling video game system of any type in June. We attribute this success to Nintendo's overall strategy of offering something for everyone -- from five-year-olds caring for their Nintendogs to 65-year-olds tuning their mental agility with Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day."
Nintendo recently launched the new version of its popular portable system, DS Lite, featuring a smaller profile and more brilliant display. Beyond appealing attributes such as dual screens, a touch screen, a microphone and seamless Wi-Fi play, DS popularity also is being propelled by a unique mix of software that appeals equally to mainstream players and those new to the category.
The Touch Generations line of fun and accessible games for all ages and skill sets features the red-hot Brain Age™: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day and Big Brain Academy™, as well as the enormously popular and innovative Nintendogs™. Nintendo DS sales success is also supported by video gaming sensations, New Super Mario Bros.® and Animal Crossing®: Wild World.
To satiate the video gaming palates of the 21 million Nintendo DS owners worldwide, Nintendo continues to increase its software offerings with Star Fox® Command, Mario vs. Donkey Kong™ 2: March of the Minis, Clubhouse Games™ and more games launching in the months ahead. Nintendo DS and DS Lite owners currently enjoy more than 130 Nintendo DS software titles -- and 880 Game Boy® Advance software titles in single play mode -- all playable on their portable DS systems.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on July 24, 2006, 07:13:38 AM
Of coarse if this was Sony they would report how many systems they shipped shipped to make it sound larger.
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Post by: archioverload on July 24, 2006, 07:35:12 AM
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Nintendo also forecast sales of 6 million units of the new console for the year ending March 2007, on software sales of 17 million units.
Post by: Kairon on July 24, 2006, 08:02:54 AM
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Nintendo also forecast sales of 6 million units of the new console for the year ending March 2007, on software sales of 17 million units.
Those are Wii estimates.
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Post by: archioverload on July 24, 2006, 10:35:56 AM
Post by: JonLeung on July 24, 2006, 10:53:20 AM
'Cause my supervisor just asked me to bring my DS Lite to work tomorrow and show her Brain Age because she's really considering getting a DS Lite especially for it.
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on July 24, 2006, 11:39:58 AM
Post by: Flonne on July 24, 2006, 11:57:08 AM
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Originally posted by: JonLeung
Funny, this.
'Cause my supervisor just asked me to bring my DS Lite to work tomorrow and show her Brain Age because she's really considering getting a DS Lite especially for it.
My aunt who is in her 60s just bought a DS Lite after playing Big Brain Academy on mine. She later sent me a picture of my 86 year old grandmother playing sudoku on the DS Lite.
Family reunions are going to become multiplayer events soon.
Post by: Spak-Spang on July 24, 2006, 12:33:16 PM
Now imagine if the Wii is able to have better success than the Gamecube in the US and Europe...and have the DS like sales in Japan.
Then we would have a Mega Hit for Nintendo.
Now, obviously, the Wii can't sustain the same sales numbers as the DS because you only need one per household. But I think It could become a huge hit none the less.
Post by: MaryJane on July 24, 2006, 02:28:52 PM
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Nintendo-math equates that to 23 systems being sold every minute since launch. In yo FACE, Gizmondo!
So... 525,600 minutes how do you measure, measure a year? No but really, 525,600 minutes in a year, so divide by 12, and that makes 43,800 minutes in a month. So divide by 19 (and 20 cuz i count 20 months but article relates to 19 month period) and you get 832,200 (876,00) and now divide by 21,000,000 and you get, .039 (.041). Which means (I think) that every .039 minutes or every 2.34 (2.46) seconds a DS was sold. Which is, 25.6 (24.8) a minute.
Nintendo math?
I wonder why Nintendo would sell themselves short? Unless it was 21 months, which i don't feel like calculating all over again.
Who the hell is Gizmondo?
Post by: NWR_Lindy on July 24, 2006, 04:23:32 PM
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Who the hell is Gizmondo?
Exactly.
Post by: Bloodworth on July 24, 2006, 04:41:10 PM
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2329&Itemid=2
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 24, 2006, 07:16:11 PM
QuoteThe Life & Times of Gizmondo
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Originally posted by: MaryJane
Who the hell is Gizmondo?
Exactly.
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