Have a look at
this excellent article over on Next-Gen that shows you (with pretty graphs) just how many Wii's Nintendo has been selling, where they've been selling them, how well 3rd party products are going and more.
(Nintendo's Sales History per Console Generation)
Quote:
Along with slides from President Iwata's presentation, we present some additional figures extracted from those graphs. Moreover, we put in historical context the sales figures that Nintendo released a day earlier, on 24 April 2008. Below you'll find:- Graphs of Wii LTD sales across four important territories: Japan, the U.S., the U.K. and Germany.
- Estimated monthly shipments of Wii consoles to those territories, revealing how Nintendo has increased production.
- Comparisons of first-party and third-party Wii software sales in the U.S., Japan, and Europe.
- Graphs of Nintendo's annual revenue since 1991, revealing the explosive impact of Wii sales.
After three little hills of revenue for its previous three consoles, suddenly Nintendo has a literal mountain of money during the Wii era. For the fiscal year ending in March 2007, Nintendo's revenue jumped to over $8 billion, far above its revenue in the previous decade and a half. Then in the fiscal year which ended in March of this year, Nintendo's revenue jumped to over $16 billion. The net profit on that $16 billion was a cool $2.5 billion.
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That's a sick amount of sales. Probably only Apple (with their iPod) can say any one product launch has impacted their overall market position and revenue so greatly. Go go Nintendo! (just start making a few games for adults please)
