An unsuspecting mother from North Carolina recently put her Nintendo Entertainment System on Internet auction site eBay starting at 99 cents, a couple of days later and the end auction finished at a impressive $13,105.
The reason behind this whopping price obviously wasn’t the NES console itself, but a game the console came with titled Stadium Events, which is believed to be one of the rarest games released in North America.
Nintendo have officially confirmed that the Wii has outsold the NES, making it “the best selling Nintendo home videogame console of all time.”
“Family Computer System, called Nintendo Entertainment System or NES in short in overseas markets, had sold 61.91 million units, which was the largest unit sales figure for any Nintendo home videogame consoles.
The cumulative sales of Wii hardware from Nintendo to our distributors and retail customers reached 67.45 million units as of the end of December 2009. It has replaced NES to become the best selling Nintendo home videogame console of all time.
Among handheld hardware, GameBoy series have sold through 118.69 million units in total since the launch, which was the largest unit sales figure among all Nintendo’s hardware products.
As of the end of December 2009, when Wii marked the record LTD sales as the number one selling Nintendo home console, the life-to-date shipments of Nintendo DS series reached 125.13 million units, which has now become largest sales figure among all of the Nintendo’s videogame hardware.
Needless to say, these are just two milestones of a larger journey in our efforts to reach the ultimate goal of bringing one home console for every household and one handheld for everyone.”
- Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has shown off the archive 1985 designs for the original Legend Of Zelda during the latest edition of Iwata Asks.
