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Goodnightmoon on 01 October 2015
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potato_hamster said:

So did you just make a lot of those numbers up and just break apart gameboy sales over generations all willy-nilly to make the numbers look better? There have been 6 console generations, and only 4 handheld generations in the same time period, and they do not line up. For example, the gameboy spanned three home console generations, the GBA spanned 2, the DS spanned 2, and the 3DS has spanned 2,  so I'm not really sure how you can package them up over generations like that. Is the Gameboy part of the N64 generation, or is the GBA part of the generation? Probably neither. It seems to me that you quite literally made up a bunch of supposed statistics to make your stance look better.

The NX on the other hand would be the first time that the hardware (home and handheld) would release simulatenously, and be considered the same platform, so in that instance it would make sense to combine them, as it would be replacing both the Wii U and the 3DS simultaneously, would it not?

Keep on thinking you're not the one doing the spinning, though. It makes you look fantastic.

What are you even talkig about? 

Game boy started with the 4th generation (snes), and sold about half of its sales until the N64 launch, then it sold the other half until it died just in the beggining of the 6th generation, it was a a console that lasted 2 entire generations and even had a different version on 1998 (GBC) with a ton of exclusive games that you cant play on GB, it was more than a simple update, for Nintendo the total numbers of every generation was like the list I made, and even if you don´t want to count GB as a 2 generation handheld (that it was) then the list is like this:

3th gen: 62m
4th gen: 169m 
5th gen: 33m 
6th gen: 103m
7th gen: 250m
8th gen projection: 87m

If you want to count GBC as the 5th generation handheld then the list is:

3th gen: 62m
4th gen: 139m 
5th gen: 63m 
6th gen: 103m
7th gen: 250m
8th gen projection: 87m

You are the one that said NX will continue the falling trend if it doesn´t sell more than the homeconsole and handheld console combined, but where is that trend you were talking about all this time in any of those lists where handhelds and homeconsoles are combined??