| nanzano said: If it is the case how and when do we decide to separate sales? Because HW improvement and exclusives are the main reasons imo, that is why I ask if it is logic to combine |
By looking at how the company that makes it treats it.
Nintendo didn't consider the Gameboy Colour to be a different system from the Gameboy, just a variant. Same with DSi relative to DS. On the other hand, Nintendo treated the Gameboy Advance as a completely new system.
You might ask why they get to decide. It's not quite like that, though. Nintendo won't stop making 3DS titles because of New3DS, they'll just make it New3DS exclusive when the 3DS wouldn't be able to handle it - because the architecture is practically identical, they can do this, even if one is faster than the other. And Nintendo will advertise the systems alongside each other. For comparison, you never saw Sony advertise the PS2 and PS3 as alternatives to each other. When the PS3 came out, the only time they advertised for PS2 at all was including it when advertising games that were releasing on both systems.
So logically, if they're being sold as variants of the same system, then that's what they are, even if one is technically better in terms of hardware.
