Charting The Growth Of Nintendo’s Hardware Sales

11:00PM August 25, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

It’s hard to imagine now, but if you can remember back to 2004, you’ll remember that Nintendo were a joke. Dead last in the console market, a boy struggling to compete in a man’s market. My, how things have changed.

Following the release of first the DS, and then the Wii, Nintendo are clearly the market leaders in both the handheld and home console markets. It’s something we just accept these days, as though it’s always been the case, but one look at these hardware sales graphs (courtesy of Nintendo) recording the last 5 years show exactly when Nintendo seized power.

Look at 2006-2008. It’s like a retail blitzkrieg.

Comments

Jay

August 26, 2009 at 1:59 PM

Umm from i’ve known, they’ve always been the market leaders in handheld. Since the Gameboy really!

Advance was a fail in my eyes, it just wasn’t worth it! But the DS was even more of a success for them. But yeah, it’s not like they went from a fail to a fail to success with their handhelds, like they did with the consoles.

YES! N64 was kind of a fail. Sales wise for THEM it was compared to the previous ones. Admit it people, but it is a beautifully ugly machine.

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