Why the heck do people group the Game Boy line together for sales???

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I agree with the OP here.

Gameboy and Gameboy colour were fairly different. There were a lot of games that weren't playable on GB, only GBC (I mean a lot, I think it's at least 10% of the later GBC games, maybe 33%).

So I think they should be split up. The problem is, how?

We have data with them combined.

What you could do to split up the sales is:

For HW: GB sales = sales up untill GBC released, + 20% of the total GB sales for the next year.

 

SW: No way to do it.

 

Anyway, for HW.

 

GBC release = November 98.

 

GB ships up untill end of September 98 = 69.56M. + October 98 = ~ 70M.

Ships next year: 15M. So between 73-77M for GB LT.

 

That means GBC shipped = 40-45M.

 

So for Nintendo handhelds, this is the sales.

 

GB = 73-77M

GBC = 40-45M

GBA = 80M

DS = 90M (expected LT = 150M +)