Hardware And Software Totals

Nintendo has recently released some total (since launch) sales of their hardware consoles, and top 5 gaming franchises. In first place is the Gameboy Advance, which includes the original, SP and Micro versions. The GBA has sold a whopping 70.04 million units worldwide since its launch in 2001 (that's around 70,040,000 units). Second place is taken by the Gamecube, at 19.31 million units, and closely followed by the Nintendo DS, at 8.83 million. Keep in mind that the GBA received a headstart of 3 years worth of sales before the DS was launched, and Gamecube was out since late 2001 to early 2002.

In terms of software, the GBA has sold 296.12 million units of software (games and accessaries) worldwide since its launch. The Gamecube has sold 165.91, and DS 28.3 million. That's pretty impressive, a large portion of these figures must have been from the Pokemon games :D.

Below are Nintendo's all time top 5 franchises, you can probably guess what they are anyway:

1. Mario 184 million units
2. Pokemon 143 million units
3. Zelda 47 million units
4. Donkey Kong 43 million units
5. Metroid 11 million units

I guess first place would've gone to Pokemon, if it weren't for the Mario range receiving a 10 year head start, though they've all sold a decent amount.

On an unrelated topic, I've been messing around with the tools in Photoshop for about an hour yesterday, trying to whip up a decent Nintendo wallpaper for my desktop. What came out isn't great but I'm satisfied, and tohught I might share the wallpaper too. Here it is, click on the image for the 1024 by 768 version :).