Finally the Nintendo DS wins the seat of "the world's best-selling portable game machine"

Nintendo revealed that Nintendo's handset game machine "Nintendo DS" series rewritten the sales volume record of "Game Boy" released in 1989 at the earnings briefing in the third quarter of 2009 on January 29 became.

As the number of handheld game machines sold exceeded the cumulative sales volume of the world's largest Game Boy, Nintendo DS won the seat of "the world's best-selling portable game machine" at the same time Wii of the stationary game machine also exceeds NES.

In addition, it is said that a completely new work of the company's popular game "Pocket Monster" series will appear within the year.

Details are as below.
Friday, January 29, 2010 Briefing Results for Third Quarter Results Presentation of Nintendo Co., Ltd. Satoshi Iwata Presentation Full Text

According to a lecture by Mr. Satoshi Iwata, president of Nintendo's third-quarter earnings briefing, the sales in April-December 2009 seems to be 1,01821 billion yen. Although this is a substantial decrease compared to the previous term, the decrease was mainly due to the decrease in sales until the second quarter. When focusing only on the third quarter, this term is 634.1 billion yen compared with 699.4 billion yen in the previous term And that.

And while foreign exchange losses occurred in the previous fiscal year, slight exchange gains have been generated in this term, so despite the fact that operating profit has decreased significantly compared with the previous term, ordinary profit · The decrease in net income is small.

This is a comparison of performance. You can see that the decrease in net income is very small compared to the decrease in sales


Also, although the cumulative sales volume of the stationary game machine "Family Computer (Famicom)" released by the company in 1986 was 61.91 million units ... ...


The cumulative sales volume of Wii released in 2006 was 67.45 million, resulting in a result surpassing NES.


And while the cumulative sales volume of the "Game Boy" series certified as the "best-selling portable game machine" in the Guinness Book was 110.69 million units ... ...


The cumulative sales volume of the Nintendo DS series has reached 125.13 million units.


In 2010, "New Pocket Month" for the first time in 4 years of the "Pocket Monster" series which sold more than 130 million copies in the world in the world appeared for Nintendo DS, the following titles etc were introduced for Wii I am trying.

It will be the latest work of the Xeno series "Xenoblade"


Towards a new form of RPG with the theme of the story as a universal emotion of peopleMistwalkerFull-scale RPG jointly developed with "The Last Story"


3D Mario action game "Super Mario Galaxy 2" will also be on sale, Zelda's latest work will be showcased at E3


By the way, according to the following link, Sony's PS2 sold more than 140 million units by the 2nd quarter of 2009 (July - September) (By March 2007 it was not handled as "unit shipments" ) It is supposed to be in the state that the Nintendo DS series will become the best selling game machine in the world may not be far.

Hardware sales volume (after April 2006) | Corporate information | Sony Computer Entertainment

Hardware cumulative production shipments (before March 2007) | Corporate Information | Sony Computer Entertainment