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potato_hamster said:

2 generations?  Here we go.

Home consoles:
NES: 62M
SNES: 49M
N64:32M
GC: 21 M
(Wii: 101M)
Wii U: 10M

It appears the the Wii is an exception to a consistent downwards trend of 10-15 million per generation.

Handhelds:
GB: 119M
GBA: 81M
(DS: 154M)
3DS: 54M

It appears the DS is an exception to a consistent dowwards trend of 30-40 million per generation.

Care to tell me how that is "spin"?

How the hell can you be trying to make a trend about Nintendo handhelds just because GBA sold less than GB?? Are you telling me that you are not trying to spin reality when GBA was in the market for just 4 years while Game boy was in the market for 12??? And yet DS last generation is the best selling handheld of the history! (And 3DS is still selling! Is not gonna be 54m forever)

And no, the Wii totally breaks that supposed trend, and there is a huge difference from how it was the market on snes and n64 days, N64 would have been the winner of the 16bit generation with those sales yet it was the big loser selling 1/4 of what PSX sold while Snes was the big winner of his generation but it would be a loser in this one, the market changed, the thing is Nintedo won the generation with Nes, Snes and Wii, and losed the generation with N64, GC and WiiU, 3 and 3, there is not a trend there, there is only 2 consecutive Nintendo consoles that failed, that´s not a trend at all.