Nintendo software and hardware sales data from 1983 to present

Ryng™ · Oct 31, 2018

Fire Emblem Awakening was at 1.79 million in December 2014, and the game was 2 years old.

It sold another 450K since that? Wow, strong legs! And good to have Fates numbers finally. Not bad, wonder if there is a chance for sells another 150K and break the 3 million mark?

TheDinoman · Oct 31, 2018

Holy shit, Pikmin 3 actually managed to sell over a million. It even outsold Pikmin 2 it seems.

Momo · Nov 6, 2018

So Pikmin 3 finally climbed over a million. I have a question for you Celine...is it possible to get data for Xenoblade Chronicles X if it ever crosses over a million? I'm not expecting to see it, but seeing Pikmin 3 gives me a little bit of hope.

Celine · Nov 6, 2018

Momo said:
So Pikmin 3 finally climbed over a million. I have a question for you Celine...is it possible to get data for Xenoblade Chronicles X if it ever crosses over a million? I'm not expecting to see it, but seeing Pikmin 3 gives me a little bit of hope.

Celine said:
I've updated the data with the FY 2019 first half results.
The WiiU chart should be considered close to definitive (BotW and the strongest selling games will sell slightly more but that's it).

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Crazyorloco · Nov 6, 2018

Celine said:
I expect triple digits growth (or close to) in the digital sales department for the current fiscal year which will be very important for Nintendo profitability going forward.

Amazing really. Looks like they're going to hit 100 Billion in digital sales.

Thank you for putting all this interesting info together!

Momo · Nov 6, 2018

Celine said:
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That's unfortunate. So it will forever be stuck in the less-than-a-million club. I'm thinking Xenoblade X is somewhere between 500k to 800k. The game deserves so much more. :(

Anyway, thank you Celine. This is a very useful thread.

ILikeFeet · Nov 6, 2018

Momo said:
That's unfortunate. So it will forever be stuck in the less-than-a-million club. I'm thinking Xenoblade X is somewhere between 500k to 800k. The game deserves so much more. :(

Anyway, thank you Celine. This is a very useful thread.

Switch port will save it! The Great One wills it into existence! but only if you believe!

Peleo · Nov 8, 2018

There is always a lot of discussion on how Nintendo franchises fare against each other regarding sales. I've compiled the data from the OP and hope this will be useful information moving forward.

Updated as of October 2018.

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Wii Sporsts had to be split in half since it was skewing the graph too much.

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

2D MARIO SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

3D MARIO SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

2D & 3D MARIO SALES

Blue = 2D Mario ; Yellow = 3D Mario

ANIMAL CROSSING SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console

DONKEY KONG SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

FIRE EMBLEM SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers
Only includes Western released titles

F-ZERO SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

KIRBY SALES

Blue = Handheld Console; Yellow = Home Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

MARIO KART SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

MARIO PARTY SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers
*Super Mario Party also lacks official sales numbers

MARIO RPG SALES

Blue = Paper Mario ; Yellow = Mario & Luigi
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

MARIO TENNIS SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

METROID SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

PIKMIN SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

POKEMON SALES

Blue = Original Version ; Yellow = Third Version / Remake

SMASH BROS SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

SPLATOON & ARMS SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
*ARMS should be Green

STAR FOX SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

WARIO SALES

Blue = Wario Land ; Yellow = Wario Ware
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

YOSHI SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

ZELDA SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

NINTENDO HARDWARE SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

All graphs based on Celine's OP.

Skittzo · Nov 8, 2018

Peleo said:
There is always a lot of discussion on how Nintendo franchises fare against each other regarding sales. I've compiled the data from the OP and hope this will be useful information moving forward.

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

2D MARIO SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

3D MARIO SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

2D & 3D MARIO SALES

Blue = 2D Mario ; Yellow = 3D Mario

ANIMAL CROSSING SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console

DONKEY KONG SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

FIRE EMBLEM SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers
Only includes Western released titles

F-ZERO SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

KIRBY SALES

Blue = Handheld Console; Yellow = Home Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

MARIO KART SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

MARIO PARTY SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers
*Super Mario Party also lacks official sales numbers

MARIO RPG SALES

Blue = Paper Mario ; Yellow = Mario & Luigi
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

MARIO TENNIS SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

METROID SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

PIKMIN SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

POKEMON SALES

Blue = Original Version ; Yellow = Third Version / Remake

SMASH BROS SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

SPLATOON & ARMS SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
*ARMS should be Green

STAR FOX SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

WARIO SALES

Blue = Wario Land ; Yellow = Wario Ware
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

YOSHI SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

ZELDA SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers
Missing Zelda Breath of the Wild WiiU Data

All graphs based on Celine's OP.

This is a fantastic post and very informative graphic. Thank you for this!

I'd also be interested to see a chart ranking Nintendo's franchises by average sales per entry at some point. A lot of discussions on this forum boil down to where all of the franchises rank in terms of selling power.

Reki · Nov 8, 2018

That graphic is a nice way to get an idea of the relative importance of Nintendo's franchises' sales. Thanks for the work!

It's sad to see Pikmin compared to the others though, the series deserves more than that despite its kind of niche genre.

Xbro · Nov 11, 2018

Momo said:
That's unfortunate. So it will forever be stuck in the less-than-a-million club. I'm thinking Xenoblade X is somewhere between 500k to 800k. The game deserves so much more. :(

Anyway, thank you Celine. This is a very useful thread.

Probably closer to 500k

goldenpp73 · Nov 12, 2018

Reki said:
That graphic is a nice way to get an idea of the relative importance of Nintendo's franchises' sales. Thanks for the work!

It's sad to see Pikmin compared to the others though, the series deserves more than that despite it's kind of niche genre.

Pikmin has yet to get a fair shake really, I would be interested if a AAA Switch release would put up better numbers. The series has always released on flop consoles aside the spin off on 3DS, but that wasn't exactly a series rep.

Celine · Nov 12, 2018

goldenpp73 said:
Pikmin has yet to get a fair shake really, I would be interested if a AAA Switch release would put up better numbers. The series has always released on flop consoles aside the spin off on 3DS, but that wasn't exactly a series rep.

Nintendo is either porting or releasing sequel of the best seller on WiiU so there is a good chance of a Pikmin 3 DX for Switch (it's one of the very last WiiU million seller that have yet to receive the "Switch treatment").

MrGab · Jan 1, 2019

New year, new data. When is the next Nintendo Financials results?

Skittzo · Jan 1, 2019

MrGab said:
New year, new data. When is the next Nintendo Financials results?

Should be around January 30th.

Chris1964 · Jan 1, 2019

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/index.html

m051293 · Jan 8, 2019

Celine said:
http://i.imgur.com/YipM1la.jpg

Hi Celine! Just wondering if you had a source for the BOTW 1.61 as of Dec 31, 2017 figure. I don't question you (that figure makes sense), just curious when they mentioned it and what else they may have mentioned.

The only note I have ever found was when they mentioned 7.5 million units (pg. 4) sold-through in US/EUR/JP (with 6.0 million from the Switch version) as of Dec 31, 2017, from which we deduce 1.5 million sell through for the Wii U version for US/EUR/JP as of Dec 31, 2017. Given that figure, 1.61 for all regions (or shipped) would be logical.

Celine · Jan 8, 2019

m051293 said:
Hi Celine! Just wondering if you had a source for the BOTW 1.61 as of Dec 31, 2017 figure. I don't question you (that figure makes sense), just curious when they mentioned it and what else they may have mentioned.

The only note I have ever found was when they mentioned 7.5 million units (pg. 4) sold-through in US/EUR/JP (with 6.0 million from the Switch version) as of Dec 31, 2017, from which we deduce 1.5 million sell through for the Wii U version for US/EUR/JP as of Dec 31, 2017. Given that figure, 1.61 for all regions (or shipped) would be logical.

There is no link on Internet.
All the interesting Nintendo shipment data is in the OP (games with data updated as December 2017 in the WiiU and 3DS charts).

m051293 · Jan 9, 2019

Celine said:
There is no link on Internet.
All the interesting Nintendo shipment data is in the OP (games with data updated as December 2017 in the WiiU and 3DS charts).

Thanks Celine!

Unrelated - I had a few notes for US SW Sales data prior to any PR/Q3 IR data. There isn't any real centralized sales thread (aside from monthly NPD prediction threads, but those focus on HW) so I thought I'd post here for now.

Some software deductions based on a few pieces of PR.

NSW US HW Sales for CY 2017 - indicated as >4.8M. Based on NPD estimates I believe the figure is 4.88M but someone can correct me if that sounds high.

Attach rates for MK8D/BOTW/SMO for CY2017 in US - Indicated as greater than 50%/55%/60% respectively.

US LTD sell-through for MK8D/BOTW/SMO as of Dec 17, 2018 - Indicated as >5.0M/>4.0M/4.7M respectively. Its also possible that the Dec 17 date is only for Smash and sell-through figures for the others are from an earlier date.

Based on the above:

CY 2017 US Sell-Through

BOTW (NSW) - >2.68M
MK8D (NSW) - >2.44M
SMO (NSW) - >2.93M

CY 2018 US Sell-Through (as of Dec 17, 2018)

BOTW (NSW) - >1.31M
MK8D (NSW) - >2.56M
SMO (NSW) - >1.77M

So as of Dec 17 2018, MK8D had already passed up 2017's figures. With at least 14 days of December still pending (maybe more if this data is from earlier), decent chance for BOTW to approach 2M, SMO to pass 2M and MK8D to go past 3.0M.

Bodes strongly for upcoming Q3 data from Nintendo - MK8D was also up for the CY in the UK. The discounted bundle was available in all of Europe I believe (but in limited quantity). Good chance shipments for MK8D are up YoY for Q3.

LegendofLex · Jan 9, 2019

Nice hold for SMO this year. Looking at Q1 numbers earlier in the year, I was under the impression its tail might not be as impressive as Zelda's. Didn't turn out to be the case.

alcabcucu · Jan 10, 2019

Amazing thread!! Thanks, Celine!!

Celine · Jan 11, 2019

Let's hope ARMS somehow survive in the top 10 best selling Switch games after this quarter.
It's unlikely but still...

ILikeFeet · Jan 11, 2019

Celine said:
Let's hope ARMS somehow survive in the top 10 best selling Switch games after this quarter.
It's unlikely but still...

as time goes on it will be less and less likely. there are two games this year that will push Arms lower that we know about

Celine · Jan 11, 2019

ILikeFeet said:
as time goes on it will be less and less likely. there are two games this year that will push Arms lower that we know about

Three (Smash Ultimate, Pokemon LG, Super Mario Party) and maybe Kirby too (let's hope somehow ARMS sold better than Kirby in the last quarter though it's pretty unlikely).
Kirby (but also Donkey Kong) will all appear in the yearly million seller list so they are fine until March 2019).

ILikeFeet · Jan 11, 2019

Celine said:
Three (Smash Ultimate, Pokemon LG, Super Mario Party) and maybe Kirby too (let's hope somehow ARMS sold better than Kirby in the last quarter though it's pretty unlikely).
Kirby (but also Donkey Kong) will all appear in the yearly million seller list so they are fine until March 2019).

I'm talking this year (2019): Animal Crossing and Pokemon 2019

Peleo · Jan 11, 2019

Celine said:
Let's hope ARMS somehow survive in the top 10 best selling Switch games after this quarter.
It's unlikely but still...

I think Kirby and Mario Tennis are impossible for ARMS to reach at this point. High chance even Donkey Kong has surpassed it by now considering it sometimes would pop up in PAL charts. I'm especially curious to learn more about the following:

-How much Smash has sold (I predict 11m).
-How much Let's Go has done (My guess is around 7m)
-How close to 10m Splatoon is (Prob still 1,5m to go)
-Confirm if Mario Kart 8 has indeed surpassed Odyssey (And if either has surpassed 15m)
-Updated numbers for Mario Tennis (Should be the best selling in the franchise by now).
-Where Super Mario Party stands in the top 10 (My guess is 7th with around 4m)

Celine Do you have any way of keeping track of the titles once they fall out of the Nintendo IR page?

Gartooth · Jan 11, 2019

Celine said:
Three (Smash Ultimate, Pokemon LG, Super Mario Party) and maybe Kirby too (let's hope somehow ARMS sold better than Kirby in the last quarter though it's pretty unlikely).
Kirby (but also Donkey Kong) will all appear in the yearly million seller list so they are fine until March 2019).

I've only noticed the IR page that has the top 10 best sellers. Is this yearly million seller list something we will see this quarter, or will we not see it until March?

Lelouch0612 · Jan 11, 2019

Peleo said:
I think Kirby and Mario Tennis are impossible for ARMS to reach at this point. High chance even Donkey Kong has surpassed it by now considering it sometimes would pop up in PAL charts. I'm especially curious to learn more about the following:

-How much Smash has sold (I predict 11m).
-How much Let's Go has done (My guess is around 7m)
-How close to 10m Splatoon is (Prob still 1,5m to go)
-Confirm if Mario Kart 8 has indeed surpassed Odyssey (And if either has surpassed 15m)
-Updated numbers for Mario Tennis (Should be the best selling in the franchise by now).
-Where Super Mario Party stands in the top 10 (My guess is 7th with around 4m)

Celine Do you have any way of keeping track of the titles once they fall out of the Nintendo IR page?

All your numbers are too low imo.

Nintendo 1st party attach rates are insane and since we are expecting 10m+ Switch sold during this quarter...

- MK8D will sell 5m+ this quarter. Best selling Switch game
- Smash 13m
- Pokemon 10m
- Super Mario Party 6m
- Splatoon 10m (no way it sells 1m in Q3)

Celine · Jan 11, 2019

Gartooth said:
I've only noticed the IR page that has the top 10 best sellers. Is this yearly million seller list something we will see this quarter, or will we not see it until March?

It's in the fiscal year reports.

Peleo · Jan 11, 2019

Lelouch0612 said:
All your numbers are too low imo.

Nintendo 1st party attach rates are insane and since we are expecting 10m+ Switch sold during this quarter...

- MK8D will sell 5m+ this quarter. Best selling Switch game
- Smash 13m
- Pokemon 10m
- Super Mario Party 6m
- Splatoon 10m (no way it sells 1m in Q3)

I do think you are overrating some of the legs on these games. Excluding digital, Splatoon 2 has sold 190k during Q3 in Japan. Americas and Rest of the World would need to sell 2,3m to reach your numbers, which is more than 10 times what it sold in Japan.

Looking at the current LTD of 7,5m for Splatoon 2, Japan accounts for roughly 33% of the game sales. Keeping that ratio in mind and including digital I think Splatoon will sell around 700k in the period.

Gartooth · Jan 11, 2019

Celine said:
It's in the fiscal year reports.

Thanks for the heads up!

Lelouch0612 · Jan 11, 2019

Peleo said:
I do think you are overrating some of the legs on these games. Excluding digital, Splatoon 2 has sold 190k during Q3 in Japan. Americas and Rest of the World would need to sell 2,3m to reach your numbers, which is more than 10 times what it sold in Japan.

Looking at the current LTD of 7,5m for Splatoon 2, Japan accounts for roughly 33% of the game sales. Keeping that ratio in mind and including digital I think Splatoon will sell around 700k in the period.

Splatoon 2 already sold 1.45m this FY (for a little bit under 5m of HW sold).

2m+ might be high but it is more reasonable than 700k imo. Western sales are going to be more important than usual.

Limabean01 · Jan 11, 2019

Peleo said:
I do think you are overrating some of the legs on these games. Excluding digital, Splatoon 2 has sold 190k during Q3 in Japan. Americas and Rest of the World would need to sell 2,3m to reach your numbers, which is more than 10 times what it sold in Japan.

Looking at the current LTD of 7,5m for Splatoon 2, Japan accounts for roughly 33% of the game sales. Keeping that ratio in mind and including digital I think Splatoon will sell around 700k in the period.

Other than splatoon 2, what games do you think LeLouch is overestimating? I think 10m+ for Pokémon and 13 ish million for smash are very safe/realistic. Super Mario Party could do even more than 6 million. 5 million mk8 this quarter maybe?

klanar · Jan 11, 2019

Limabean01 said:
Other than splatoon 2, what games do you think LeLouch is overestimating? I think 10m+ for Pokémon and 13 ish million for smash are very safe/realistic. Super Mario Party could do even more than 6 million. 5 million mk8 this quarter maybe?

Splatoon 2 is the only one out of the games listed that i doubt, 9-9.5M is my prediction.

Limabean01 · Jan 12, 2019

klanar said:
Splatoon 2 is the only one out of the games listed that i doubt, 9-9.5M is my prediction.

I agree. The other four are going to blindside a lot of people come January 30th(?) it seems.

Peleo · Jan 12, 2019

Limabean01 said:
Other than splatoon 2, what games do you think LeLouch is overestimating? I think 10m+ for Pokémon and 13 ish million for smash are very safe/realistic. Super Mario Party could do even more than 6 million. 5 million mk8 this quarter maybe?

Besides Splatoon 2 I would say only Mario Kart 8 is a bit overestimated. Even though the game is having a fantastic second year, 5m is too much for this quarter. I think it will be closer to 2,5m.

During the last investors meeting, Nintendo published a graph showcasing the monthly sales of the evergreens (Odyssey, BotW, MK8 and Splatoon) in Japan/US/EU. Mario Kart was selling roughly 350k per month. Taking into consideration the overperformance during holidays and sales provenient from rest of the world, it should be closer to 2-3m.

Just for reference, in the sams graph Splatoon 2 was selling in the range of 150-200k.

Regarding the new releases, I think his numbers are all reasonable. Could see Smash doing anything between 11-15m, Pokemon between 7-11m and Mario Party within 5-7m. It's obviously much harder to predict them since there are fewer points of comparison.

Celine · Jan 31, 2019

I've updated the spreadsheet, will soon update the charts in OP (only NSW and 3DS software charts, HW chart and few other ones)

A few quick snippets:
NES Classic + SNES Classic total sell-in: (2.30M+5.28M)+5.83M = 13.41M
So it's safe to state that NES Classic and SNES Classic have already sold more than 13 million units combined as December 2018.

For the quarter Q3 of the FY ending March 2019:
WiiU SW sold 160K
Wii SW sold 280K
DS SW sold 20K

Despite NSW being less than 2 years old Nintendo total first-party software* sales on NSW are already higher than SNES, GBA, GC and WiiU total first-party software sales*.

* What is referred as "First-party software" is actually an approximation calculated by summing every million-seller.
Since most Nintendo games sell at least 1 million units it should be a close enough approximation.

Celine · Jan 31, 2019

I've updated the charts in OP with data until December 2018.

Momo · Jan 31, 2019

Thanks for the update, Celine! Impressive numbers all-around.

This is the first quarter without an update on Xenoblade Chronicles 2. It makes me wonder how much it sold in the last quarter. I'm guessing around 100k with a total of 1.63 million copies.

Xenoboy · Jan 31, 2019

Celine said:
I've updated the charts in OP with data until December 2018.

Hey, I think you accidentally removed or forgot to put in the 3DS numbers, since they aren't in the OP.

Celine · Jan 31, 2019

Xenoboy said:
Hey, I think you accidentally removed or forgot to put in the 3DS numbers, since they aren't in the OP.

Good catch.
Fixed it.

shauntu · Jan 31, 2019

Celine said:
I've updated the spreadsheet, will soon update the charts in OP (only NSW and 3DS software charts, HW chart and few other ones)

Is the spreadsheet accessible somewhere? Just wondering... Thanks!

Celine · Feb 1, 2019

No, the spreadsheet is personal.

PogiJones · Feb 1, 2019

I can get used to periods instead of commas for x.xxx.xxx type numbers. After all, the internet is international, and we need to be flexible with other regions' notations, right?

...But I will never get used to the comma being used for the decimal. It just looks so wrong to me, and does not fit the "five point four five" way of verbalizing decimals I've grown up with. How does one even verbalize those comma decimals? Surely not with "point," right?

But good work, OP.

AztecComplex · Feb 1, 2019

After a freaking licensed FPS game from a second party developer outsells The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time with sales mostly only from the US on N64 please, pray tell, what demon possessed Nintendo to sell off this second party developer who had already promised an FPS sequel to said smash success' spiritual successor for your struggling cube shaped console even after a newcomer Halo is eating your lunch and then NEVER fill that huge hole you left open in your portfolio?

Seriously, Nintendo sold Rare without having any exclusive flagship FPS to replace them in an era where Halo was taking the world's biggest market by storm.

TL;DR I forget Goldeneye 007 was the third best selling N64 game of all time beating even Zelda OoT and then they sold off Rate. Brilliant move!

Myriotes · Feb 1, 2019

PogiJones said:
I can get used to periods instead of commas for x.xxx.xxx type numbers. After all, the internet is international, and we need to be flexible with other regions' notations, right?

...But I will never get used to the comma being used for the decimal. It just looks so wrong to me, and does not fit the "five point four five" way of verbalizing decimals I've grown up with. How does one even verbalize those comma decimals? Surely not with "point," right?

But good work, OP.

I would say "Fünf komma vier fünf"

PogiJones · Feb 1, 2019

Myriotes said:
I would say "Fünf komma vier fünf"

Ah, so when speaking English to a foreigner, for example, and using that notation, you would say "Five comma four five"? Or would you switch to saying "Five point four five"?

Shaldome · Feb 1, 2019

PogiJones said:
Ah, so when speaking English to a foreigner, for example, and using that notation, you would say "Five comma four five"? Or would you switch to saying "Five point four five"?

Five point four five. Not everyone uses the comma as a delimiter for decimal places. Americans for example use a point so 5.45 and not 5,45.

Celine · Feb 1, 2019

PogiJones said:
...But I will never get used to the comma being used for the decimal. It just looks so wrong to me, and does not fit the "five point four five" way of verbalizing decimals I've grown up with. How does one even verbalize those comma decimals? Surely not with "point," right?

But good work, OP.

I actually agree with you despite the comma being the decimal separator in my Country.
I just never had the time to check where is the setting to change the culture formatting in Excel.

Celine · Feb 1, 2019

AztecComplex said:
After a freaking licensed FPS game from a second party developer outsells The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time with sales mostly only from the US on N64 please, pray tell, what demon possessed Nintendo to sell off this second party developer who had already promised an FPS sequel to said smash success' spiritual successor for your struggling cube shaped console even after a newcomer Halo is eating your lunch and then NEVER fill that huge hole you left open in your portfolio?

Seriously, Nintendo sold Rare without having any exclusive flagship FPS to replace them in an era where Halo was taking the world's biggest market by storm.

TL;DR I forget Goldeneye 007 was the third best selling N64 game of all time beating even Zelda OoT and then they sold off Rate. Brilliant move!

I think Nintendo failed to build on the FPS userbase they had on N64 because Nintendo in Japan was never really interested in the genre and all was on Rare shoulders to lead the genre.
Rare however had a bit of troubling to following after GoldenEye which was a licensed IP (Nintendo smartly tend to never be reliant on external IPs because not having the full control of the game IP cause issues and is less profitable).
Perfect Dark took way to long to come out and as result it sold much less than GoldenEye.
The sequel in development on GC also had troubles.

As for why Nintendo didn't decide to spend US$ 100 million or more to fully acquire Rare, I think how the IPs were split between Nintendo and Rare gives a good insight.
Basically Rare retained every IP they've created under Nintendo which weren't previously owned by Nintendo or by other companies (so everything except Donkey Kong, Starfox and GoldenEye 007).
This is telling because, looking at the Rare under Nintendo million seller list, the IPs Rare retained accounted for just 23% of the total sales (15.30 million units of the total 66.21 million units).

Nintendo software and hardware sales data from 1983 to present

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