Famicom Mini surpasses 260,000 sales on launch in Japan
The Famicom Mini has proved as popular as it’s western counterpart with 262,961 being sold in just its first weekend (four days) on sale. Despite not being a ‘new’ console the numbers are impressive as that figure puts launch of the console above other console like the GameCube, Dreamcast but just below the PlayStation 4 and Wii U.
Just for fun here’s the entire list of ‘weekend’ launch sales for new console.
1998.11.27 [Sega Dreamcast] (¥29.800) – 101.490 (3 days)
2000.03.04 [Sony PlayStation 2] (¥39.800) – 630.552 (2 days)
2001.09.14 [Nintendo GameCube] (¥25.000) – 133.719 (3 days)
2002.02.22 [Microsoft XBox] (¥34.800) – 123.929 (3 days)
2005.12.10 [Microsoft XBox 360] (¥29.000 / ¥39.795) – 62.135 (2 days)
2006.11.11 [Sony PlayStation 3] (¥49.980 / ¥59.980) – 88.443 (2 days)
2006.12.02 [Nintendo Wii] (¥25.000) – 371.936 (2 days)
2012.12.08 [Nintendo Wii U] (¥26.250 / ¥31.500) – 308.570 (2 days)
2014.02.22 [Sony PlayStation 4] (¥41.979 / ¥46.179) – 322,083 (2 days)
2016.11.10 [Famicom Mini] (¥5.980) – 262,961 (4 days)
Pretty impressive for a ’30 year old console’.
