Nintendo, industry surge to $1.1 billion in sales
Friday, April 20th, 2007 at 12:27pm by Staff
Just to build a bit on Blake’s “Nintendo dominates sales AGAIN” post from yesterday…
Nintendo, in addition to dominating the sales numbers for North America with the DS, Wii, and even the GBA (which beat the PS3 in sales), has helped boost the overall sales of the video game industry to over $1 billion dollars. And yes, the PS2 and God of War 2 also helped considerably. I’ll pause a moment to let you all do a quick Mike Meyers impression. Don’t forget the pinky finger.
The Nintendo DS was North America’s best-selling games hardware during March, helping to boost overall sales in the market to a massive USD 1.1 billion (EUR 808m), compared to USD 818 million (EUR 601m) the previous year.
This is good for everyone in gaming; the rising tide raises all boats. Except the PS3. Have you seen the size of that thing? Sinks like a rock.
April 20th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Again, the power of software over hardware: GBA sales are higher for the same reason that DS sales are dominating: The Pokémon franchise! Since people can transfer their Pokémon from previous versions to Diamond/Pearl, I’ve seen them going back to playing the old ones too, and even purchasing them. Which means they might need a new GBA, which might explain the sales.
Like I said, expect the same thing happening for the 360 as Halo 3 gets closer and to Wii when Super Mario Galaxy gets here!