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potato_hamster on 01 October 2015
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Goodnightmoon said:

How in he hell is gonna be GB part of the 3rd generation when the 4th generation had already started on 1987 with the PC Engine??

Gameboy was selling through all the 4th gen and the 5th gen, being the market leader of hanheld consoles until the release of Game Boy Advance that was released already in the 6th generation, so as I told you in the first place, GB is a 4th and a 5th gen console, now I gave you 3 options :

 1. Counting GB as a 4th and 5th gen consoles (this is the correct one)

3th gen: 62m
4th gen: 109m 
5th gen: 92m 
6th gen: 103m
7th gen: 250m
8th gen projection: 87m

2. counting it as only a 4th gen console despite being the handheld leader of the market through all the 5th gen.

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


 3. Counting GBC as a 5th gen handheld despite the fact that everybody counts it as a new model of the original GB, something that could have some debate but overall is the most incorrect one.

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

The point is, IN ANY OF THOSE POSSIBLE COMBINATIONS you see absolutely no descendent trend for Nintendo consoles sales when you combine hanhelds consoles and homeconsoles, and you said NX has to sell more than the homeconsole and hanheld consoles combined in order to not continue the fall trend of Nintendo hardware sales, but the thing is, WHERE IS THAT TREND YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT IN ANY OF THOSE LISTS?? No place to be found, so your argument is invalid and what you have been trying to do this time, as I said to you in the first post, is SPINNING REALITY.

Going by whatever scenario you want is irrelvant, because it's contrived to combine the sales of handhelds anc consoles in the first place. Combining the devices and unifying them as a generation to minimize the obviousness of Nintendo's decline is simply fanboyism - a way of looking at the numbers to hide the irrefutable truth - Nintendo as a video game console maker is on the decline, and it has been for decades.

With the exception of the Wii and the DS,  the fact of the matter is is that every single Nintendo console's successor has sold less the one before it. That's not spin. That's a fact. There is no indication that the success Nintendo found in the Wii and DS will be replicated in the future. Nintendo did not manage to carry any momentum at all from those devices and went back to selling precisely the amount of consoles and handhelds many industry leaders expected them to, and there is no reason to think that the next generation will buck that trend either. Now of course no one really expected the success of the Wii either, but something tells me the casual crowd aren't coming back to Nintendo for NX any more than they flocked to buy the Gamecube or GBA, are they?

You can throw little fanboy tantrums all you want, and pretend Nintendo is selling just as many video game consoles as it ever was, but that does not change the fact that if the NX performs just as well as many expect it to (if it is a combined platform, less than 50-60 million world-wide combined - less than 10M for NX Home, 40-50M for NX portable) Nintendo is at the very least, probably done making home video game consoles, and maybe out of the hardware game all together.

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