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PSwii60 on 01 November 2012
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Pineapple said:
PSwii60 said:
sethnintendo said:
PSwii60 said:
History is against Nintendo. Trend all comes in twos, as you know.

What trend are you talking about?  Home consoles or hand helds?  Because the only trend in hand held market is Nintendomination.

We all know Nintendo's Home/Handheld consoles' improvement of its predecessor doesn't do as well in sales.


The trend isn't there for the Nintendo handhelds. They've all sold more than the previous, except for possibly the GBC.

We don't have numbers to split the GB and GBC on Vgchartz, but on the information in this link: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20000615a4.html we can say the following

- The original GB had sold 50 million up to 1996
- Between 1996 and 1999, the GB + GBC sold 30 million
- After that, the GBC sold 40 million

So you're probably looking at the Nintendo handhelds selling somewhere ala

GB: 70 million with 9 years as the main handheld
GBC: 50 million with 3 years  as the main handheld 
GBA: 81 million with 3.5 years as the main handheld
DS: 155 million with 6 years as the main handheld

This is pretty clearly not a decline. It's a constant increase.

Ugh. I hate this Rich-Text Editor.

Anyway, GB/GB-Pocket/GB-Light/GB-Color are all in the same generation (with redesigns) with GB-Advance as their successor and GBA-SP as its redesign. GBA did not sell as well as Gameboy did. DS is a new line of handheld console by Nintendo with 3DS as its successor and is obviously an improvement of DS.