Nintendo’s Bi-Yearly Sales Reports Are In!

News Includes:

• The Bi-yearly video game units, consoles, and hardware sales (all sales are as of September 2008) are IN!
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl becoming the best-selling fighting game of all-time, passing it’s prequel, Super Smash Bros. Melee.
• Mario Kart Wii outselling Halo with about 1 1/2 million units to spare, making it the best-selling non Wii series game this generation.
• The Wii owning the PS3 and 360.
• The DS owning the PSP.
• Wii, DS, PS3, PSP, and 360 sales.
• Pictures of Homelessvagrant picking his nose (just kidding [although I do wish I had them])

So with that said, here comes the Gaming Sales news!

According to the September bi-yearly Nintendo sales check, Super Smash Bros. Brawl has sold a total of 7.47 million units as of September 30th, outselling it’s prequel Super Smash Bros. Melee 7.09 million units sold, making it the best-selling fighting game of all-time in just under 8 months. Now that’s incredible. Melee took about 5 1/2 years to outsell the collection of Street Fighter II (series), including the original game, expansioned games, remakes, re-releases, and ports. Melee outsold the original best-selling video game of all-time, the origianl Super Nintendo (Super Famicom) version of Street Fighter II after about 3 to 3 1/2 years. You know what this means? Brawl’s sales are constantly going up, and it’s aiming at passing Halo 3’s 8.1 million units sold on the 360, as well as Mario Kart Wii’s 9.53 million units sold, which have all but set the 1st party Wii game sales apart from Microsoft’s and Sony’s sales.

 

 

In other news, the Wii has managed to outsell BOTH the Gamecube and Nintendo 64, selling a total of 34.55 million console units as of September 2008. The Wii remains the fastest-selling console of all-time, making the Playstation 2 and their own Nintendo DS’s sales look like a joke. And you know what? The console is STILL SOLD OUT 2 years post-release. The way things look for the Wii, it could easily pass the PS2’s 141 million console units sold mark, and will easily reach 150 million units sold at this pace by the consoles’ end, and possibly even 200 million if all goes well. The Sony Playstation has sold a total of 16.84 million console units as of September 2008, while the Microsoft Xbox 360 has sold a total of 22 million console units as the same date-only 2 million console units behind the original Xbox. In other words, the Wii has almost sold more then the PS3 and 360 COMBINED! However, it should be noted the PS3 percentage-wise sales are gaining the fastest, while the Wii’s are the most constant, mostly due to the system still being sold out. Yes-still sold out. I still can’t believe it.

 

In other news, the DS has sold a total of 84.33 million console units as of Septmber 2008, outselling the Gameboy Advance’s  81.36 million untis sold (which has been out for about a decade, in about 4 years. Nintendo is truely dominating the gamimg market at this pace. The Gameboy/Gameboy Color still remains the best-selling handheld of all-time, unless you count them seperate handheld consoles, in which case the DS is the best-selling handheld console of all-time. The Playstation Portable is also doing good, selling 41 million console units, but still too far away from the DS to even compete.

 

In other words, the clear winner is Nintendo this generation, destroying both competetors, and totalling annilanating the competition in both major console genres.

 

That is all. Until next time, remain Super Awesome ya’lls.

~His Knightlyness Himself~

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