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Because it's perhaps vaguely interesting. And I spent the time to calculate those percentages, so why not post it here too? :)

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.p...ost9171519

NES
Japan: 19.35m
America: 34.00m
Other: 8.56m

SNES
Japan: 17.17m (11% decline from previous gen)
America: 23.35m (31% decline from previous gen)
Other: 8.58m (0.002% increase from previous gen)

N64
Japan: 5.5m (69% decline from previous gen)
America: 20.6m (12% decline from previous gen)
Other: 6.75m (21.3% decline from previous gen)

GC
Japan: 4m (27% decline from previous gen)
America: 12.8m (38% decline from previous gen)
Other: 4.8m (29% decline from previous gen)

That really shows how huge the SNES-to-N64 collapse was in Japan. No other transition comes even close, though overall sales decline every time but one. It's also interesting how much Sega hurt Nintendo in the 16-bit race, while in Europe Nintendo was flat... though I think Sega's European sales were definitely above Nintendo's.

In the US, the N64 was actually Nintendo's biggest success of its post-NES consoles by this reckoning, given that it ended up with only a 12% decline while the SNES and GC both dropped over 30% from their predecessors. Of course that doesn't tell the whole story, given that 23 million was enough for the SNES to win the US while 20 million put the N64 at half of the PSX's ~40 million sold in the US, but that looks pretty good compared to the GC's 38% decline competing against a system that again sold over 40 million. Even so though, with 62% of its worldwide sales in the US, the GC was much more successful here than anywhere else.

"Reckoning" just sounds like such a grizzled old prospector word.

True. But I used it anyway. :D

"I turned him in to furniture" now THAT sounds like grizzled old prospector.

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Oh, and woo......... sales data.... I cant follow any of it unless there's a pie chart. Can we get a pie chart?

The Wii has already passed the Gamecube in Japan and I expect that it won't be much longer before the same thing happens in Europe as well.

Go wii wii

Given how poorly Nintendo has always done in Europe, I'd say that it's quite likely that the Wii will end up Nintendo's most successful major console ever there, that's for sure... all it has to do is sell over 8.5 million there to do that. Matching the NES'es US or Japanese numbers will take quite a lot longer, to say the least... :)

It's actually probably around 5 million or so in Europe right now. So, yeah, it should be Nintendo's most successful console in Europe before the end of the year.

Yeah, and the GC numbers shouldn't take long to match the N64 now that they're past the GC. Because Nintendo never fell apart in America anywhere near like what they did in Japan, though, matching US numbers will take some time... particularly with how incredibly slowly Nintendo is increasing production. They could have sold hundreds and hundreds of thousands more Wiis in the US in the past few months they actually had more to sell...

Oh yes, and as for Europe, DS success there probably did help the Wii.

...so...

no pie chart