July 2016 NPD Thread! Hardware and software up!

[zorg1000]

Aquamarine said:

zorg1000 said:

I agree with pretty much everything you said, except for Gameboy Color didnt sell special. Nintendo shipped like 40+ million Gameboys from October 1998-March 2001 (2.5 years) and im assuming the vast majority of those were the Color variant.

Game Boy Color Hardware sold very well.

 

However, software wasn't nearly as strong, Game Boy software still dominated for almost the entire length of the Game Boy Color, and GBC software was almost completely dominated by Nintendo of America:

 

 

1999 Game Boy Software Marketshare:

Nintendo of America: 70%

THQ: 8%

Other: 7%

Hasbro / Midway / Namco / Acclaim: 3% each

Crave Ent. / Infogrames: 2% each

 

 

1998 Handheld Software Market Breakdown (Rev):

Game Boy: 78%

Game Boy Color: 19%

Other: 3%

 

1999 Handheld Software Market Breakdown (Rev):

Game Boy: 45%

Game Boy Color: 55%

Neo Geo Pocket: 0.3%

Other: 0.1%

 

2000 First Half Handheld Software Market Breakdown:

Game Boy: 31%

Game Boy Color: 68%

Neo Geo: 1%

Wow thats alot of neat info!!!!!

But you said Gameboy software continued to dominate then went on to show that Color software had 55% marketshare in 1999 & 68% marketshare in 2000 compared to 45% & 31% for Gameboy.

Also NOA dominance really isnt that surprising considering one thing, Pokemon.1999/2000 was the peak of Pokemania.