{"id":251478,"date":"2010-01-30T13:58:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T18:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/30\/wii-outsells-nes-ds-outsells-game-boy\/"},"modified":"2010-01-30T13:58:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T18:58:28","slug":"wii-outsells-nes-ds-outsells-game-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/251478","title":{"rendered":"Wii Outsells NES, DS Outsells Game Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><!--Begin feature--><\/p>\n<p><!-- for syndication --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4b3a9_media?id=3642838&amp;type=lg\" alt=\"Wii\" \/>In what may be the best symbolic example yet of Nintendo&#8217;s current phase of prosperity, president Satoru Iwata announced that lifetime sales of the Wii have surpassed those of the NES, and the DS has outsold the Game Boy &#8212; making them, respectively, Nintendo&#8217;s best-selling home hardware of all time and best-selling hardware period (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/onearticle.x\/62136\" >via<\/a> Shacknews).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Iwata said, possibly while stroking a white Persian cat while seated in a swivel-chair in the belly of a submerged nuclear submarine. <\/p>\n<p>The numbers break down to 67.45 million Wii units sold as of the end of December, compared to lifetime NES sales of 61.91 million units. The DS has sold 125.13 million units as of December, compared to lifetime Game Boy sales of 118.69 million. <\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/newsStory?cId=3177767\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what may be the best symbolic example yet of Nintendo&#8217;s current phase of prosperity, president Satoru Iwata announced that lifetime sales of the Wii have surpassed those of the NES, and the DS has outsold the Game Boy &#8212; making them, respectively, Nintendo&#8217;s best-selling home hardware of all time and best-selling hardware period (via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}