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Click here to visit the page where the data will be updated from now on.
It was made abundantly clear that this place [the staff or part of it] don't have regard for the efforts it takes to compile data nor understand that it's the aggregation of a small group of dedicated people that matter (after all it's a pretty niche subject!), not the platform which is just an empty host.
UPDATED WITH DATA UNTIL JUNE 2021
Note:
It's shipment data provided by Nintendo itself directly from Nintendo's Public Relationship department, Nintendo official site or other reports which used Nintendo's shipment data.
Sales included in the lists pertains:
- Games published by Nintendo which shipped more than 1 million units.
- Only original game releases are considered (for instance the sales from re-releases on Virtual Console or retro mini consoles aren't include).
- Digital sales are included only for the games that had a digital version available at the time (basically since WiiU/3DS and beyond).
- Digital only games are excluded.
For games released on NES, GB/C,SNES, N64 their LTDs could be considered as definitive.
For games GBA and GC their LTDs can be considered as definitive, top 5 games for each are updated as March 2013 while the rest I suspect is updated as a period between 2009 and 2011 (despite the report citing December 2014).
Note that while the report cites the figures are update as December 2014 I believe this is true only for WiiU and 3DS.
For GBA and GC I believe they are updated as 2009-2011 (after that I think they were considered legacy hardware, some games like Pokémon shipped a few more units after).
Shipment figures updated "as March 2013" came directly from Nintendo.
Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask total shipment outside Japan as September 2015 was reported directly by Nintendo.
Hyrule Warriors (WiiU) and Pokkén Tournament (Wiiu) have both shipped more than 1 million worldwide but Nintendo was the publisher for these games only outside Japan and outside Japan these two games didn't cross the million bar therefore they aren't present in the WiiU chart:
https://www.famitsu.com/news/201501/27070268.html
http://bandainamcoent.co.jp/corporate/press/release/62/pdf/20160818-1.pdf
I'm going to keep this thread updated with new, more updated data.
I will usually update the thread yearly (around May each year since it is when Nintendo reveal the results for the full fiscal year).
Note about Pokémon:
Take with a grain of salt Pokémon Yellow and Crystal sales presented in the Game Boy list because contrary of the rest of the entries these two are estimates.
Nintendo's official word is that Pokémon Red/Blue/Green, Yellow, Gold/Silver and Crystal combined have shipped about 76 million units worldwide.
Please take the combined figure instead of the single entries for Pokémon Yellow and Pokémon Crystal if you need an official source.
Hardware data is shipment data provided by Nintendo itself as June 2021 (except Virtual Boy, see note below).
Most of these figures can be considered close to definitive with the exception of 3DS and NSW of course.
GB contains GBC sales units as the two are considered one single platform by Nintendo.
Every figure is in million of units.
Include bundled units and downloaded units (for the games which had a digital copy at release so from 3DS/WiiU on ward).
The first wave in the Classic NES Series / Famicom Mini Series / NES Classics for GBA have sold in total 3.92 million units worldwide as September 2004.
Pokémon Red / Green / Blue / Yellow / Gold / Silver source:
life.oricon.co.jp
Game & Watch data source:
http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/clubn/game-and-watch-ball-reward/0/3
Color TV Game 6/15 data source:
Nikkei Electronics May 9, 1994 issue "Famicom Development Story."
http://trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/special/20080929/1019222/
NES Classic Mini data source:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/04...llion-units-worldwide-before-its-cancellation
SNES Classic Mini data source:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2018/180426e.pdf
Hardware
Videogame Console with interchangeable software** (in million of units):
Note: Virtual Boy total shipment is until March 1996. So may not be definitive as the system was discontinued in the fiscal year ending March 1997.
* 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.
** Only software which has physical version is considered.
If a game has a physical version and a digital version then it is included but if it is digital only it is excluded.
LSI Game Console (essentially Pong clones)
Note: More than 70% units sold were Color TV Game 15 consoles.
Game & Watch
Plug & Play Retro Console
Note: Combined NES Classic and SNES Classic have shipped more than 13 million units as December 2018.
The sales figure above refer to the last time Nintendo gave specific update for the single console.
Software
Home console
Handheld console
Hybrid console
Grand total:
As of June 2021 Nintendo has published more than 370 million seller and has sold more than 2.03 billion games.
Charts:
Note that what is referred as "First-party total software sales" in the graph above is actually only the sum of Nintendo million seller games.
Of course some Nintendo games could have shipped less than 1 million units therefore this is really an approximation of "First-party total software sales".
This approximation however should be close enough to the actual value since historically Nintendo games often ship more than 1 million units therefore composing the majority of the software sales sold by Nintendo.
Nintendo Revenue, Operating and Net Income from 1981 to 2021:
Nintendo Gross Profit Ratio, Operating Profit Ratio and Net Profit Ratio from 1981 to 2021:
Nintendo Digital Sales from 2006 to 2021:
Nintendo R&D and Advertising expenses from 2000 to 2021:
Nintendo website where you can find useful information:
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/
This thread is dedicated to Hiroshi Yamauchi and Hiroshi Imanishi.
Click here to visit the page where the data will be updated from now on.
It was made abundantly clear that this place [the staff or part of it] don't have regard for the efforts it takes to compile data nor understand that it's the aggregation of a small group of dedicated people that matter (after all it's a pretty niche subject!), not the platform which is just an empty host.
UPDATED WITH DATA UNTIL JUNE 2021
Note:
It's shipment data provided by Nintendo itself directly from Nintendo's Public Relationship department, Nintendo official site or other reports which used Nintendo's shipment data.
Sales included in the lists pertains:
- Games published by Nintendo which shipped more than 1 million units.
- Only original game releases are considered (for instance the sales from re-releases on Virtual Console or retro mini consoles aren't include).
- Digital sales are included only for the games that had a digital version available at the time (basically since WiiU/3DS and beyond).
- Digital only games are excluded.
For games released on NES, GB/C,SNES, N64 their LTDs could be considered as definitive.
For games GBA and GC their LTDs can be considered as definitive, top 5 games for each are updated as March 2013 while the rest I suspect is updated as a period between 2009 and 2011 (despite the report citing December 2014).
Note that while the report cites the figures are update as December 2014 I believe this is true only for WiiU and 3DS.
For GBA and GC I believe they are updated as 2009-2011 (after that I think they were considered legacy hardware, some games like Pokémon shipped a few more units after).
Shipment figures updated "as March 2013" came directly from Nintendo.
Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask total shipment outside Japan as September 2015 was reported directly by Nintendo.
Hyrule Warriors (WiiU) and Pokkén Tournament (Wiiu) have both shipped more than 1 million worldwide but Nintendo was the publisher for these games only outside Japan and outside Japan these two games didn't cross the million bar therefore they aren't present in the WiiU chart:
https://www.famitsu.com/news/201501/27070268.html
http://bandainamcoent.co.jp/corporate/press/release/62/pdf/20160818-1.pdf
I'm going to keep this thread updated with new, more updated data.
I will usually update the thread yearly (around May each year since it is when Nintendo reveal the results for the full fiscal year).
Note about Pokémon:
Take with a grain of salt Pokémon Yellow and Crystal sales presented in the Game Boy list because contrary of the rest of the entries these two are estimates.
Nintendo's official word is that Pokémon Red/Blue/Green, Yellow, Gold/Silver and Crystal combined have shipped about 76 million units worldwide.
Please take the combined figure instead of the single entries for Pokémon Yellow and Pokémon Crystal if you need an official source.
Hardware data is shipment data provided by Nintendo itself as June 2021 (except Virtual Boy, see note below).
Most of these figures can be considered close to definitive with the exception of 3DS and NSW of course.
GB contains GBC sales units as the two are considered one single platform by Nintendo.
Every figure is in million of units.
Include bundled units and downloaded units (for the games which had a digital copy at release so from 3DS/WiiU on ward).
The first wave in the Classic NES Series / Famicom Mini Series / NES Classics for GBA have sold in total 3.92 million units worldwide as September 2004.
Pokémon Red / Green / Blue / Yellow / Gold / Silver source:
約4年ぶり！ ポケモン完全新作が2010年内発売へ
約4年ぶり、ポケモン新作2010年内発売 ■そのほかの最新写真ニュース一覧はこちら 任天堂は29日、人気ゲーム『ポケットモンスター』シリーズの完全新作を2010年内に発売すると発表した。同日、都内で開かれた同社の2010年3月期第3四半期決算説...
Game & Watch data source:
http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/clubn/game-and-watch-ball-reward/0/3
Color TV Game 6/15 data source:
Nikkei Electronics May 9, 1994 issue "Famicom Development Story."
http://trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/special/20080929/1019222/
NES Classic Mini data source:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/04...llion-units-worldwide-before-its-cancellation
SNES Classic Mini data source:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2018/180426e.pdf
Hardware
Videogame Console with interchangeable software** (in million of units):
Note: Virtual Boy total shipment is until March 1996. So may not be definitive as the system was discontinued in the fiscal year ending March 1997.
* 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.
** Only software which has physical version is considered.
If a game has a physical version and a digital version then it is included but if it is digital only it is excluded.
LSI Game Console (essentially Pong clones)
Note: More than 70% units sold were Color TV Game 15 consoles.
Game & Watch
Plug & Play Retro Console
Note: Combined NES Classic and SNES Classic have shipped more than 13 million units as December 2018.
The sales figure above refer to the last time Nintendo gave specific update for the single console.
Software
Home console
Handheld console
Hybrid console
Grand total:
As of June 2021 Nintendo has published more than 370 million seller and has sold more than 2.03 billion games.
Charts:
Note that what is referred as "First-party total software sales" in the graph above is actually only the sum of Nintendo million seller games.
Of course some Nintendo games could have shipped less than 1 million units therefore this is really an approximation of "First-party total software sales".
This approximation however should be close enough to the actual value since historically Nintendo games often ship more than 1 million units therefore composing the majority of the software sales sold by Nintendo.
Nintendo Revenue, Operating and Net Income from 1981 to 2021:
Nintendo Gross Profit Ratio, Operating Profit Ratio and Net Profit Ratio from 1981 to 2021:
Nintendo Digital Sales from 2006 to 2021:
Nintendo R&D and Advertising expenses from 2000 to 2021:
Nintendo website where you can find useful information:
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/
This thread is dedicated to Hiroshi Yamauchi and Hiroshi Imanishi.
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