I’m loathe to publish news about companies “shipping” hardware to retailers, but 100 million is 100 million, and the DS has, apparently, shipped just that. Even more important however, since content is king, is that 83 DS titles have broached the 1 million mark. I don’t doubt that the actual “sold” numbers for the DS […]
I’m loathe to publish news about companies “shipping” hardware to retailers, but 100 million is 100 million, and the DS has, apparently, shipped just that.
Even more important however, since content is king, is that 83 DS titles have broached the 1 million mark.
I don’t doubt that the actual “sold” numbers for the DS will in fact be 100 million sometime soon. Congrats.
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It's alright. When you get to 80-120 million sort of numbers, even 1-2 million units sitting in excess on shelves becomes such a tiny percentage that the shipped numbers are barely wrong. Of course, if you reach that kind of range then you're also probably the super successful type that can assume continued rapid sales ahead. It's not like January 16th 2007 when Microsoft claiming to have shipped 10.4 million units when they'd sold 8.2 million. That's almost a 27% overstatement!
"It's not like January 16th 2007 when Microsoft claiming to have shipped 10.4 million units when they'd sold 8.2 million. That's almost a 27% overstatement!"
Not to get too bogged down in technicalities, but Microsoft was also guilty of stuffing the channel in that case as well. A big faux pas, and not the mark of a company that was having a good year (at the time).
Even though it's easy to walk into pretty much any store now and find a DS, you really can't say that stores have stock piles of the things in their warehouses. From what I've seen and heard, most DS's move pretty fast. So if Nintendo says that they've shipped 100 million DS's, then I believe that they have sold an amount very close to that number as well.
I wonder what the final tally for the DS will be before (and could have been) the DSi completely replaces it.
Tell you what, though, no matter how you want to look at this, that is pretty stinking impressive.
@Joshdad
Im pretty sure that the DSi will be lumped in with the original DS and the DS Lite. When all is said and done with the PS2 it will include the original PS2 and the slim so I dont see why the DS sales wouldn't include all 3 versions of the handheld because they all play the same DS games.
it's a fun system- and i finally beat new super mario! just took a little road trip to give me the time.
@ Ninjaluke:
True.
But the Dsi might not suffer that fate since it's a total overhaul. Heck, it might even have exclusive games, so we don't know whether or not total sales will include the DSi.
@ deepthought:
Finally? Like, 100% walkthrough? 'Cause I cleared the basic thing in about two months after I got it.
Hey that is so cool but I already got one so haha you lose a customer