It's that time again, folks, because above all other things, you love the numbers game: time for us to bring you Nintendo's latest launch-to-date sales information.
Kicking it off is the Nintendo DS. The dual-screened juggernaut has sold 3.97 million units in the US out of 14.4 million worldwide. Nintendo's also sold 10.46 million of those little cards that go into the back stateside, and 46.4 million worldwide, resulting in a 2.63:1 game-to-system ratio in the US and 3.22:1 worldwide.
Next up is Nintendo's current home console, the Nintendo GameCube as it lives out its twilight year. Nintendo has sold 10.95 million units in the US since the system launched, and 20.61 million worldwide. Software sold totals 88.86 million stateside for a games-to-systems ratio of 8.11:1, and 184.36 million worldwide for a ratio of 8.94:1.
The venerable Game Boy Advance also continues to sell, chalking up 32.06 million units in the US and 74.25 million worldwide. US consumers bought up 141.89 million Game Boy Advance software units (4.42:1) and worldwide consumers 319.31 million (4.30:1).
Since Nintendo started selling games and systems, they've sold over 363 million systems and more than 2.1 billion games worldwide.