Nintendo "still not satisfied" by sales

By Robert Purchese Published 15 July, 2008

DS to break 100 million sales by March.

Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime is "still not satisfied" with the sales performance of Wii and DS.

He told press at the Nintendo E3 conference there were still "tens of millions" of people to attract, and that he expects the DS will break 100 million worldwide sales before next March.

Currently the Wii has sold over 10 million units and the DS over 20 million units in the US, according to NPD data.

Between them they have combined to fetch more than USD 5 billion in hardware revenue, we were told.

This, Fils-Aime admitted, was better than 2007 when he was "not close to being satisfied".

Nintendo said games like Pokémon - with 180 million game sales around the world so far - would help it reach its targets, as well as freshly unveiled titles like Animal Crossing: City Folk, Wii Sports Resort, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown, and more.

Fils-Aime also whipped out some impressive graphs that showed the Wii and DS as the fastest selling hardware of recent times - even more so than the PS2.

Head over to our Nintendo E3 conference coverage for the full report.

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Comments (5) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • smelly #1 4 years ago

    "to Pokemon with 180 million game sales "


    (shouts)

    IF POKEMON SELLS SO FUCKING WELL.. WHY DONT YOU MAKE A *DECENT* 3D POKEMON GAME FOR THE WII..


    You know, with all the adventure/rpg elements still in tact.. like a 3d zelda??

    GRRR!!!

    Rant.. rave.. snarl.. etc

  • WillyWanka #2 4 years ago

    Never thought that disgusting piece of hardware, the DS, would sell 100million, but even I couldn't resist when they brought out the sexi-time Lite.

    /shallow

  • SlipstreamDrifter #3 4 years ago

    Does anyone remember when ninty 1st announced the DS just after the psp was announced and everyone thought it would be the nail in the coffin for nintendo, and everyone was raving bout how great the psp would be and the ds would be a flop etc etc?

  • RandomTerrain #4 4 years ago

    No, I don't remember anyone saying that. I just remember people saying the PSP was too expensive.
    So parents are obviously going to buy the cheaper hand held for their kids. One of many reasons Sony lost this battle.

  • Vasenor #5 4 years ago

    They would have been able to sell a few more consoles etc if they'd sorted out their supply problems...