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Stever89 on 28 January 2008
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Final-Fan said:

There are many obvious differences between the Wii and the Gamecube. If you want to make this into a serious debate, Played_Out, make your comparison more complete and flesh out your arguments and then I'll rebut.

I'm not trying to say that the GBC is a mere hardware revision of the GB like the Game Boy Pocket; my posts have made that clear. But neither is it a totally new system like GB-->GBA-->DS. It occupies a strange sort of middle ground that it may very well hold alone. I just don't want it to be pigeonholed based on what we are more familiar with.

@Stever89: Well, you seem to have a very good understanding of the situation; I think your decision is a bit odd but it's also understandable to want to separate the two for the reasons you stated. And of course there's the fact that it's your analysis. (Also, it may give a good comparison to later systems that didn't last so insanely long as the original GB hardware did.)


I didn't mean for this to turn into a debate, and it's hardly necessary. I will take into consideration many points when trying to determine market size and share for each handheld generation, don't worry.

I really like the bolded part. Because that about sums it up. Not really the successor, not really a redesign. Probably something that has never happened, and unlikely to happen ever again.

And yes, it is my analysis, but I try to look as unbiased as is humanly possible, and I like to be as complete as possible. Obviously only including Nintendo handhelds and the PSP in my analysis would be an incomplete look at the handheld market, wouldn't you agree? Also, I do make my analysis available, as you can see in my sig, so it's for the benefit of everyone. My interest is centered around Japan because of it's decreasing market size in the console market, and I was thinking it might be interesting to see if the handheld market has increased (by more, less, or the same amount as the console market has shrunk) to see if there's any basis for a "handheld x can take away sales from console y" arguement. Which is a valid arguement, but without much data to support it. And that's where I come in. ;)