Nintendo Dominates Across the Board - Lifetime Console Sales Revealed

[Shawn Zipay]

Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo have released their lifetime sales for their consoles. Nintendo has absolutely dominated when it comes to sales of the Wii and DS. Shacknews has compiled the statistics for us, so let's not let their hard work go to waste any longer.

- Wii - 70.93 Million Units
- Xbox 360 - 40.3 Million Units
- PlayStation 3 - 35.95 Million Units

- Nintendo DS - 128.89 Million Units
-- of which Nintendo DSi - 17.82 Million
-- of which Nintendo DSi XL - 2.08 Million

As of right now, the current lifetime sales of the PSP and PlayStation 2 were not revealed. If you want to check out the year by year sales of each console, check after the jump. Note how price reductions helped to boost the sales of the PS3 last year.

Wii (Nintendo)
FY06 / April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007: 5.84 Million
FY07 / April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008: 18.61 Million
FY08 / April 1, 2008 - March 31, 2009: 25.95 Million
FY09 / April 1, 2009 - March 31, 2010: 20.53 Million

Xbox 360 (Microsoft)
FY06 / July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006: 5.0 Million
FY07 / July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007: 6.6 Million
FY08 / July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008: 8.7 Million
FY09 / July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009: 11.2 Million
FY10 / July 1, 2009 - March 31, 2010: 8.8 Million

PlayStation 3 (Sony)
FY06 / April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007: 3.61 Million
FY07 / April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008: 9.24 Million
FY08 / April 1, 2008 - March 31, 2009: 10.1 Million
FY09 / April 1, 2009 - March 31, 2010: 13.0 Million

Nintendo DS (Nintendo)
FY04 / April 1, 2004 - March 31, 2005: 5.27 Million
FY05 / April 1, 2005 - March 31, 2006: 11.46 Million
FY06 / April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007: 23.56 Million
FY07 / April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008: 30.31 Million
FY08 / April 1, 2008 - March 31, 2009: 31.18 Million
FY09 / April 1, 2009 - March 31, 2010: 27.11 Million