kitler53 said:
Khuutra said:
The element that you're missing is that theorizing concerning the reason behind handheld sales trends does little to reflect the reality of it: the original Gameboy sold about 100 million units over the course of 12 years, and the GBA sold about 80 million. Both were outsold by the PS1 and PS2, and both will eventually be outsold by the Wii. The DS is the first handheld ever to sell as well as the PS2, much less better.
Whether or not it seems like this should be passe, it isn't, because it is unprecedented in the handheld space.
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=why compare the GB (118M) to the PS2(~150M) when chronologically the GB is much closer to the NES(61M) which it pales in comparison to. in compariable time periods...the DS is NOT the first handheld to outsell it's console counter-part hence the relative lack of excitedment.
it's a great milestone mind you but unprecedented...please.
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Remind me how many major hardware revisions the GB went through and how many generations it took to hit those numbers? I believe it was two on the first, TWO AND A HALF on the second?
