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Units sold Ref. PlayStation 2: Home Sony: 2000 >160 million [1] Nintendo DS: Handheld Nintendo: 2004 154.02 million [20] Nintendo Switch # Hybrid Nintendo: 2017 150.86 million [20] [note 1] Game Boy & Game Boy Color: Handheld Nintendo: 1989, 1998 118.69 million [20] [note 2] PlayStation 4 # Home Sony: 2013 117.2 million [22] PlayStation: Home ...
Units sold Date of figure Nintendo Nintendo DS March 11, 2005 12,300,000 [100] 2011 Microsoft Xbox 360 December 2, 2005 9,030,000 [101] June 2015 Nintendo Wii December 8, 2006 8,400,000 [102] June 27, 2013 Sony PlayStation 2 November 24, 2000 8,030,000 December 2005 PlayStation September 1995 7,190,000 December 2005 PlayStation 4 # November 29 ...
Publishers were also drawn away from the Wii with the promise of the more powerful Wii U in the near future. [234] [235] Wii sales continued to decline into 2012, falling by half from the previous year. [236] After its release in Canada on December 7, 2012, the Wii Mini had sold 35,700 units by January 31, 2013. [5] [237]
As of March 31, 2016, the Wii has sold 101.63 million consoles worldwide. [12] Wii Sports—a collection of sports minigames that were designed to leverage the Wii Remote, was bundled with the console outside of Japan, and had a major cultural impact as the console's "killer app" among the mainstream audience. [13] [14]
Nintendo recently announced that it had discontinued production of the original Wii, which started a revolution in motion-controlled video games. More than 100 million Wii units were sold during ...
The third-best-selling game is Wii Sports Resort, a sequel to Wii Sports, with sales of 33.14 million units. The console's top five is rounded out by New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which sold 30.32 million units and Wii Play, which sold just over 28 million units worldwide.
The rise and the fall of the Wii could be seen through people like my parents, who were among the legions to buy one of the consoles when it was still a hot item in 2007.
Follow @leokornsun Last week, Nintendo made the unsurprising announcement that its Wii U had flopped and its 3DS sales were on the ropes. Nintendo slashed its original full-year Wii U sales ...