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thismeintiel said: That's the most ridiculous comparison. Talk about apples to oranges. Of course if you combine home console sales of ALL consoles it will be more than handhelds, there are more of them. Only since the PSP, has there been a competent non-Nintendo handheld on the market. So, that is a skewed way of looking at the data to support your comment. The fact is, Nintendo's handhelds have always out performed their home console counterparts. That is until the PS2 came along. |
Please do not involve me into your fanboy wars.
What I was trying to do at the time is to see the market capacity and how it growed. The market capacity is smth that have limits, if console #1 occupies some part fo it, it makes the sales of console #2 more problematic. Here goes your "more of them" argument. There're a lot of things that might grow the market outside of efforts made by actual competitors, but it undeniable that DS has grown the market. I'm interested in trends, while actual numbers -- a million more or less, did it pass PS2 or not -- you may discuss all you want, do not care. Doesn't change the fact.
That's why I wrote what I wrote. DS reaching that number is smth quite more amusing for me than PS2 reaching it's current lifetime sales. But that depends on perspective, I guess :D
//I'm not sure why your brought up PSP over here, but for the record it was, Game Gear. Hightest marketshare it ever reached against Game Boy was 25%, not quite PSP but very respectable, it got dwarfed eventually as it dies out while GB(C) kept selling. Your mistake is you operate with lifetime sales numbers, while time sampling will give you a different perspective, and a good one.
