| BraLoD said: Well, GB/GBC sold 118M and SNES sold 49M. Do you see 3DS/2DS/N3DS and WiiU doing anything close to that? Those are dying systems while they weren't in the 90s. |
In fiscal year ending March 1995, both of those devices had shown big declines, GB shipped 5.56 million which was down from 7.47 million & SNES shipped 4.41 million which was down from 11.06 million. That's a total 9.97 million down from 18.53 million. Basically the same situation they are currently in.
It was literally just Pokémon+Gameboy Color that caused those massive sales in the late 90s/early 00s. So yes if 3DS stayed on the market for 12 years without a successor and received a massive system selling series that sold over 60 million than yes they could come close to those numbers.
Gameboy was a two generation device, comparing it's lifetime sales to a single generation device does not make for accurate comparisons.
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