By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
tak13 on 11 December 2016
Edit Thread
Shadow1980 said:
tak13 said:

I'm bowing to you shadow, you outargue many people here with this meticulous, illuminating and principally, unbiased post... Decline to be dead is different than to decline and stabilize to something viable like in the case of PC vs tablets. Also, you concur with me about how unfair is the comparison with ds, some people use it  for a specific reason...

By the way don't be afraid of calling ds an anomaly, generally the 7th gen was an anomaly, especially  for handheld consoles. From no sony handheld console and 81.5m gba ( okay lets say 100m because it was ''replaced'' early, even though fat ds didn't affect its sales, ds lite after two years did it, pokemon emerald was released in 2006 ) to 236m handheld consoles, 154m  and 82m respectively.

They can base anywhere  else if they want their aspect about the alleged death of handheld console and yet the keep repeat this comparison. Yeah I should have predicted that just because PS3 sold 70m less than PS2, the next PS4 would sell less than ps3, and PS5 less than PS4, nice flawed logic.

Also, handheld console market is only Nintendo, when we do comparisons it would be right to make them just with the previous Nintendo handheld consoles, plus not just the global LT sales...Europe, japan e.tc. In addition, collating sales per time period  ( e.g gba three years vs 3ds three years ) by taking into  account the circumstances of each gen,.

Anyway, I want to remind you that GB is two gen handheld console. Few people are recognizng this.

GB and GBC, gbc came after nine years and had its own game library... I'm reiterating myself, but think people, Pokemon silver and gold weren't compatible with gb for example...

Nintendo shouldn't have combined their sales in my opinion!

What If Pokemon sun and Moon were new 3ds exclusives? ;)  Well, the games likely wouldn't sell as much as they would sell if they were compatibe with all models but it would boost a lot the hardware sales because of those who want to play it, upgrading.

3ds sold 15m in 2011, 14.8m in 2012, 12.9m in 2013,  7.63 in 2014, 7.9m in 2015 and is probably going to sell more than 2015 thanks to Pokemon go+Pokemon sun and moon, remarkable stability  since 2014. (  in calendar years  )

None of those who doom  the (ultimately Nintendo HC )  handheld console refer to  the one extremely succesful Nintnedo ( okay Nintendo wasn't directly involved ) mobile game that increased significantly 3ds sales and made the commensurate game in its core exprerience to break records. If Pokemon S/M outsell the pokemon games of DS, what will the say?

P.s  Even if handheld consoles market evaporates completely in the west, Japan will be the reason why  handheld consoles ( ultimately Nintendo HC ) will always exist! 3DS is on tradk to sell 2m there in 2016, only down by 300k , in a market where it has hit almost complete saturation and will probably end up with 25m lt sales there.

I'm glad you enjoyed the post.

Re: The Game Boy & GB Color, the reason I combine the two—and probably the reason Nintendo combines them as well—is because the GBC is effectively just an upgraded Game Boy. It has the same Sharp LR35902 CPU, but with a faster maximum clock speed. It also had three times as much total RAM (4x more main RAM, 2x more VRAM). For all intents and purposes, it was just a souped-up Game Boy, no more distinct from the original GB model than the DSi is from the DS or New 3DS is from the regular 3DS or the Pro is from the base model PS4. It wasn't until the GBA that Nintendo had created an entirely new made-from-scratch handheld platform.

This is an astute expanaltion, I have this in my mind too..

However, in case you didn't understand me, my objection lies in the fact that  GBC came nine years after orginal model and had its own brand new vast game library, as I aforesaid Pokemon Gold silver were GBC exclusives.