Khuutra said:
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?
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"The Game Boy and Game Boy Color combined have sold 118.69 million units worldwide, with 32.47 million units in Japan, 44.06 million in the Americas, and 42.16 million in other regions. By Japanese fiscal year 1997, before Game Boy Color's release in late-1998, the Game Boy alone had sold 64.42 million units worldwide. [16][17]"
so the original GB (64M) sold more than the NES (62M) without any revisions.
and btw the NES wasn't discontinued until 2003 so it was on the market for 18 years.
one last thing...
...not exactly short on revisions are we?
again, DS has had an amazing run. full props to it. still not unpresedented.
