Latest Nintendo annual report touts over 650 million units of hardware sold over 30 years
Details from the latest NIntendo annual report have come in, and it gives some interesting figures that really put things in perspective:
– Over the past 30 years, Nintendo has sold 653 million units of hardware.
– 268 million consoles, 385 million handhelds
– 2.195 billion units of software sold on home consoles
– 1.907 billion units of software for handhelds
– Software numbers include download software and bundled software
To put things in perspective: That works out to nearly 60,000 units of hardware sold every day on average, and nearly 375,000 units of software sold per day on average. The average software tie ratio? 6 games per unit of hardware.
That’s a lot of merchandise. Wowza.
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