October 30th, 2008

Video Game Statistics – DS vs GameBoy

I don't know if you like statistics or not, but I am sure you're curious about them. When talking about video games, numbers are everything, especially since we're talking about an ever-expanding market. If I will ever see aliens coming to Earth the official way, I can bet one thing - when leaving, they'll surely have a Nintendo DSi with them...or maybe a Game Boy Advance, that depends on how things are going to evolve until then!

If you want to take a look back, then you should see the August 2008 video game statistics article regarding the July games sales, as well as the October 2008 one, where we talked about the battle in the game consoles arena. Now, we're back to only a part of that battle, namely the struggle in the handheld area...

...with the Nintendo DS vs Game Boy Advance! Sure, it's a battle between brothers, but this is very interesting news in the video game statistics field,

since the Nintendo DS got ahead of the legendary Game Boy handheld for the first time in history!

Remembered for launching immortal games like Tetris and Pokemon, the Game Boy sold over 81 million units, while the Nintendo DS recently reached the 84 million mark. The accurate numbers show that the DS has shipped exactly 84.33 million units by the end of September, with no less than 13.73 units sold worldwide in the last six months, while the Game Boy Advance shipments are 81.36 million.

When moving in the software video game statistics field, we find 454.63 million DS software units shipped (20 million Nintendogs!)

To close this nicely, I will also add that the Wii now is getting near to the 35 million mark, with almost 230 million software titles shipped, of which Wii Fit is getting near the 9 million barrier.

That's it for today, see you next time with some more video game statistics! When? Probably after the Christmas shopping spree...or before it! ;)