Thought people might wanna read this, its pretty interesting stuff

NINTENDO

OK, this is the most shocking thing ever

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NES: 61.9 million

SNES: 49.1 million

N64: 32.9 million

GameCube: 20.9 million

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Nintendo and it's two larger rivals

What's up with that? I'm pretty sure Nintendo is bigger than Microsoft and maybe bigger than Sony.

As for the decline in sales the Wii is definitely going to sell more units than the Gamecube. The Wii is too big and looks too good to not sell at least 10 million. It will take some time but 1 year from now Wii's gonna be huge.

This is interesting also.

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Here are the number of games sold per console for each of the four systems:

NES: 8.08 games

SNES: 7.72 games

N64: 6.84 games

GameCube: 9.05 games

Out of all the Nintendo systems the N64 had sold the least amount of games, and Gamecube sold the most.

I expect the Wii to break the trend of declining console sales. I believe it will sell alot more then the Gamecube, and it's final sales figure will be around the SNES.

Not surprising. PS1 games were cheaper than N64 games, both for the producers and consumers. A CD was around $0.50 at most. A cartridge was around $30 each.

I'm not so surprised with the consoles sold, either. The NES was the only major console for a while. It basically revived the game "depression" caused by Atari's failure. It had virtually no competition, the SEGA Master System sold 10 million, which was nothing then. The SNES, on the other hand, had the SEGA Genisis to deal with, which sold 30 million. The N64 had both the Saturn and the PSX against them(though the Saturn didn't sell much). The GC had the PS2 and the XBox, which sold much more than the Saturn. Competition is getting worse for Nintendo, but Sony went against what made them succeed so well, the PSX's cheaper games and decent price tag, which carried effects onto the PS2(mainly, a fanbase, which attracts 3^rd party developers). I don't believe the PS3 will have nearly as many consoles to sell as the PSX, and I know it won't sell 100+ million. I used to love Sony the most, but I turned away recently, mainly after the Wii and it's controller. It's what really turned me to Nintendo, the Wii and the DS. Before that, I was going to get a PS3 and PSP just because it was Sony, even though I knew absolutely nothing about them. Meerly blind fanboy faith. I actually put some thought into which is the best system, regardless of company name. Though, in my opinion, the past two generation winners were both Sony. I believe it might change this time around.

Actually the NES sold the most games. The GC sold the most PER console sold. What that is suggesting it that each GC owner had about 9 games on average. But since the NES out sold it by more than 3 times as many units that means it also sold more games. And the N64 number would also be misleading since it sold more units than the GC as well.

N64: Approximately 225,036,000 games sold
GC: Approximately 189,145,000 games sold

I don't know about the Wii selling close to 50 million units though. I would expect it to be somewhere around 40 million though. It will almost certainly outsell the GC. Unless it proves to be less interesting than we believe after release. IE following the N64 with a poor crop of games released.

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Nintendo and it's two larger rivals

What's up with that? I'm pretty sure Nintendo is bigger than Microsoft and maybe bigger than Sony.

Im all for Nintendo, but theres no chance that Nintendo are bigger than Sony and Microsoft. Maybe in the video gaming industry, but not overall. Though i see what you might be getting at.

The main reason why the system sales have been declining with each system is the fact that more competition enters the field each time. The NES basically had a monopoly over the gaming industry at the time. The SNES had the Genesis to compete with, while the N64 had to compete with PSX, and Sega Saturn. Finally, the GameCube had the PS2 and the Xbox.

No matter which sold the most, each new console that competed with another automatically cut down the amount of sales for the other console, simply because most gamers only buy one console from each generation. So no matter what happened in the GC generation, they were basically only working with an average third of the market that they had back in the NES days.

No NES had to compete with the Sega Master System. And some version of Atari. And around the time of SNES and Genesis there was the Turbografix 16 and another that I can't remember. Nintendo has never had a monopoly. Heck the NES wasn't even the superior system. The Master System was better but NES was cheaper and at the time that was all people looked at.

But the Master System didn't sell nearly as well as the NES, so it basically had the market for itself. The Master System only sold a sixth of what the NES sold, and the Atari 7800 was basically a failure. It didn't sell so well, from what I know. The NES was in total rule, but the SNES wasn't as sucessful.

I think that SNES and NES sold the most systems because when they were out, there wasn't much competition/other choices in consoles, so everyone bought them. But over the years, there have been more choices in consoles, so it makes sense that Nintendo's sales have dropped like that.

Also, the fact that the GameCube (as well as the N64) was mainly meant for young children shut out the older age groups, so they went to other systems (as well as because of better graphics).

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But the Master System didn't sell nearly as well as the NES, so it basically had the market for itself. The Master System only sold a sixth of what the NES sold, and the Atari 7800 was basically a failure. It didn't sell so well, from what I know. The NES was in total rule, but the SNES wasn't as sucessful.

I know but to say the NES had a monopoly is just wrong.

Sega was fair competition. The reason NES sold more than the master system is better advertising and lower price. Honestly in 1987 when I got my NES I had never even heard of the Master System. I vaguely remember seeing a very small section at the end of the Nintendo aisle in Toys R Us for Master System games. My first though was what the heck is that?

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The main reason why the system sales have been declining with each system is the fact that more competition enters the field each time. The NES basically had a monopoly over the gaming industry at the time. The SNES had the Genesis to compete with, while the N64 had to compete with PSX, and Sega Saturn. Finally, the GameCube had the PS2 and the Xbox.

No matter which sold the most, each new console that competed with another automatically cut down the amount of sales for the other console, simply because most gamers only buy one console from each generation. So no matter what happened in the GC generation, they were basically only working with an average third of the market that they had back in the NES days.

I have to agree with you. Gamecube sold pretty poorly, but the big drop in sales can also be attributed to the strength of its competitors.

quote dragonclawz

Also, the fact that the GameCube (as well as the N64) was mainly meant for young children shut out the older age groups, so they went to other systems (as well as because of better graphics).

i dont agree with the graphics thing, the n64 had better graphics than the playstation, and the gamecube had better graphics than the ps2, it didnt mean that it did better (plus there is now the ds and psp thing going on, the psp has better graphics but hasnt sold as well as the ds)

i think its was down to 3rd party support, the playstation had more (i think it was easier to develop on a cd-rom and/or it was cheaper, so that encouraged developers also), so it had a wider range of games (i had an n64 at the time and not a playstation, but honestly alot of the games for the n64 and gamecube were similar, compared to playstation 1 and 2 games), so it sold more...i think its more about the game library than the console's hardware/graphics/features

I had a Master Sytem and I loved it. Had a few Sonic games that even rivaled the some of the Mega Drive counter parts. Asterix on it is up there in my top ten games of all time.