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potato_hamster said:
Goodnightmoon said:

Maybe if you read the part when he ask me how much devices they sold on prior generations you would understand why I posted that.

It doesn't change the fact that your decision of which handheld belongs to which console "generation" is completely arbitrary, and thus your "statistics" on how many devices Nintendo sold each generation completely meaningless.

If you want to argue against that point, please go ahead and point out why you decided the Gameboy was part of the SNES "generation" and not the NES "generation" or the N64 "generation". Even though the Gameboy was released 2 years before the SNES, and, if you even want to call the Gameboy color a different console (it wasn't, unless you want use the same logic argue that the new 3DS is a new console and separate from the 3DS, which I see you haven't done) was replaced as Nintendo's flagship handheld 2 years after the release of the N64.

The only reason people use this "generation" argument is because it obfuscates Nintendo's declining sales with each console's successor (of course with the exception of the Wii and DS).

So, as we don't know in what exact generation we should place every handhelwd, we just have to ignore the 420m they sold through times and keep telling shit like "Nintendo branch is losing strenght since the very beggining" even when handhelds are part of that branch and, as is already tradition in VGC, completely ignoring the wii era too. Then once you have eliminated those 2 completley essential things in the history of the company you can make any dumb doom theory that you want.