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Samus Aran on 31 March 2015
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dharh said:
zorg1000 said:

People really need to stop using DS/PSP generation as a standard to base things on. Here are the sales for each of Nintendo's handhelds

Game & Watch-43 million

Gameboy (89-96)-54 million

Gameboy (97-03)-64 million

Gameboy Advance-81 million

Nintendo DS-154 million

Nintendo 3DS-51 million (rising)

People seem to forget that Gameboy was a 2 generation handheld so it's 118 million sales don't explain the full story. When stacked up against each individual generation, 3DS sales don't look too bad, it's actually on track to sell just as well as Gameboy did during the huge Pokemon phenomenon.

We have a rising population.  When the Vita completely exits and the next Nintendo HH comes on the scene we will see, but I think ultimately it will be a decline in sales.  If they have the audacity to create a fusion platform that unifies a single medium you might well see a sizable cannibalization in total combined hardware sales.

Yeah, mostly in the poor countries.