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potato_hamster on 30 September 2015
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Goodnightmoon said:

How the hell can you be making a trend about handhelds just because GBA sold less than GB?? Are you rtelling 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 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 change, the thing is Nintedo won the generation woith 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.


You do realize that pointing out the fact that the with market has expanding, total hardware sales have getting bigger,  and yet Nintendo's sales have gotten smaller shows that Nintendo's market share for each generation (barring Wii and DS) has diminished even further than even the raw sales data indicates, right? Your point actually makes Nintendo look worse.

Let me break it down for you:

NES vs SMS vs A7800
61.9M vs. 11.5M (estimate) vs.4.3M
Marketshare: 80%

SNES vs GEN
49.1M vs. 29.5M
Marketshare: 62%

N64 vs PS1 vs Saturn
32.9M vs. 104.3M vs 8.8M
Marketshare: 22%

GC vs. PS2 vs. XB vs. DC
21.7M vs 157.7M vs 24.7M vs 8.2M
Marketshare: 10%

Wii vs. PS3 vs X360
101.2M vs 85.8M vs 84.9M
Marketshare: 37%

WiiU vs. PS4 vs X1
10.1M vs. 24.8M vs. 13.6M
Marketshare: 21% (and dropping)

Taking reasonable projections:
WiiU vs. PS4 vs X1 (projected)
15M vs. 100M vs 75M
Marketshare: 7%

Please go ahead and explain how this somehow makes Nintendo look better? Who is actually doing the spinning here?

Because to me: 80 -> 62-> 22 -> 10 -> (37)-> 7 

That looks like a pretty solid downard trend with the Wii again being the exception.