Of those, 19 titles were developed by internal Nintendo divisions. Ī total of 53 Game Boy and Game Boy Color games sold one million units or more. The top five is rounded out by the platform's first Super Mario title, Super Mario Land, which sold over 18 million copies worldwide, and Pokémon Yellow, which sold over 14 million units in total.
The second best-selling Game Boy games are Pokémon Red, Green and Blue, which sold over 31 million units combined, followed by the best-selling Game Boy Color games Pokémon Gold and Silver, which sold over 23 million units in total. First released in Japan on June 14, 1989, Tetris was often released as a pack-in game for the original Game Boy, and went on to sell in excess of 35 million units worldwide. We’ll have to see if they can keep that pace up over 24 months.The best-selling video game of all-time on the Game Boy and Game Boy Color is Tetris. The company is talking the talk with promises of proactively releasing key first-party titles towards early in 2014. While it is hard to see Wii U climbing out of third place, if Sony and Microsoft fight it out to a draw, Nintendo may eventually be able to have a nice installed base for selling its first-party titles. The best-case scenario for Nintendo’s console is a slow and steady build to relevancy with consumers. The Wii U’s biggest problem is getting lost amidst the massive launches of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. When DFC Intelligence releases its November forecast it is expected the forecast for Wii U will be lowered over the forecasts released this July. We do not, however, see a critical mass of demand that will lead to fulfilling Nintendo’s 9 million-unit forecast. Taken together with the lower $299 price we expect to see Wii U hardware sales continue to improve. Nintendo also has a much bigger marketing push planned that will be accompanied by many more promotional activities to get the Wii U in the hands of more consumers.
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Nintendo also plans to aggressively bundle software with the console during the holidays. Nintendo is headlining the holiday season with Wii Party U and Super Mario 3D World, both of which should draw the attention of many gamers in the weeks ahead. More importantly, the lower MSRP on the Wii U played a significant factor, even if only for the last 10 days of the reporting period. Those are first-party titles strong enough to sell hardware.
Then in September, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD shipped in Japan and the United States. First, Pikmin 3 was released last July in Japan and Europe, and a month later in the United States. Impact: There are two major factors we see boosting Wii U hardware sales.
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On total sales of ¥115 billion ($1.2 billion) Nintendo posted a ¥8 billion ($81 million) loss for the quarter driven by total selling, general and administrative expenses that exceeded gross profit, plus a boost in advertising activities to increase sales, as well as research and development for the Wii U software. At 460,000 units sold through the first two quarters of Nintendo’s fiscal year, the gamemaker is well short of its forecast of selling 9 million Wii Us by March 31. For the quarter ending on September 30, units sold totaled 300,000, up 88% from the 160,000 moved during the preceding quarter. reduced the price of the Wii U by $50 on September 20 in North America and Europe Wii U sales have increased. Nintendo has more Wii U bundles set for the holidays.
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