
Software sales grew across the board for all platforms. Wii software sales grew in all regions: in Japan from 2.78 million units to 3.9 million, in the US from 8.7 million to 19.34 million, and in other regions from 4.5 million to 17.16 million. This totaled to 40.41 million software units sold for the Wii in the quarter, compared to 15.98 million the previous year. Two sales numbers for two games were specifically provided—Wii Fit moved 3.42 million worldwide, while 6.42 units of Mario Kart Wii have been sold.
DS software sales for the quarter were likewise up, from 34.26 million units to 36.59 million units. In this case, growth in other regions (14.33 million software units in the US versus 11.29 million, and 17.33 million in other regions versus 13.18 million) did manage to offset a major decrease in Japanese sales—from 9.79 million to 4.93 million. While Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Exploeres of Darkness/Time was mentioned as being a strong contributor to DS software sales, no numbers were provided.
Life to date sales for the Wii are now at 29.62 million worldwide, with 6.43 million sold in Japan, 13.11 million sold in the Americas, and 10.08 million sold elsewhere. Wii software life to date sales now stands at 188.85 million units—24.96 million in Japan, 98.71 million in the Americas, and 65.17 million elsewhere.
Life to date sales for the DS are now at 77.54 million units, with 22.97 million sold in Japan, 25.11 million sold in the US, and 29.47 million sold in other regions. 406.19 million DS games have sold—119.93 million in Japan, 137.53 million in the US, and 148.73 million elsewhere.
Nintendo forecasts that it will sell 25 million Wiis in the 2009 fiscal year, as well as 177 million pieces of Wii software. It was also predicted that 28 million DS units would move worldwide this year, bringing 187 million software units along with it.
Nintendo also showed the sales tally for its legacy products that are still on the market. The GameCube moved no units in the quarter worldwide, compared to 40,000 that sold only in the US the year before. 10,000 GBAs moved in Japan and 180,000 moved elsewhere, though none sold in the US. This totaled 190,000 GBAs sold in the quarter, compared to 560,000—20,000 in Japan, 320,000 in the US, 210,000 sold elsewhere—the year before.
90,000 GameCube games also sold in the April to June 2008 period—10,000 in Japan, 60,000 in the US, and 20,000 elsewhere, compared to 1.12 million units sold the year before. This brought total life to date GameCube software sales to 208.56 million, with total hardware sales stagnating at 21.74 million. The GBA life to date sales now stands at 81.24 million units sold worldwide—16.89 million in Japan, 41.64 million in the US, and 22.71 million sold in other regions. A contribution of 280,000 software sales in the last quarter (down from 3.69 million the year before) pushed GBA life to date software sales to 376.94 million—72.76 million in Japan, 217.13 million in the US, and 87.05 million elsewhere.