Games Thirst – Amazing Life
With Nintendo’s 2013 annual report, we forgot about Wii U’s disappointing sales. Oh boy, did we forget about it.
The company has sold 269m home consoles since Famicom’s release in 1983. Yes, two hundred and sixty nine millions. In case it seemed small.
Handhelds, you say? 385m of them. Three hundred and eighty five million handheld consoles, since the release of Game Boy in 1989. Damn, it almost needs a whole article line of its own to support that number.
Statistically, every US citizen could have more than 1 Nintendo console, handheld or not, if these figures were US-only. Now does it seem huge?
2.2 billion home system games have been sold since Nintendo launched the Famicom, and 1.9 billion portable games since it launched the Game Boy. Do the math — no, I’M doing it for you. 4.1 billion games in 30 years. Four billion — forget it, you get the picture.
Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata promised “Nintendo-like” profits yesterday; is this what he meant?
