I flew too close to the 1TF sun and my Switch wings melted.

[potato_hamster]

RolStoppable said:

potato_hamster said:

Wow. That's a classic case of skewing the numbers to make what your selling look better. I love how you group Nintendo's sales into arbitrary 5 year periods, and mash handheld sales into home console sales so that the sales of Nintendo's more successful consoles are spread out over multiple 5 year periods to mask the fact that console-to-console sales have a steady and consistent decline.

Look we all know that Nintendo's Gameboy sales were actually backloaded, and we all know Nintendo saw great sales out of the DS, the Wii. It doesn't change the fact that if you take the year-on-year sales separated by console it again becomes apparent what I'm talking about.

But it's cool. Whatever helps you sleep at night.

I'll take a look at your 80 million figure later. I get closer to 90 million going by my numbers, but I probably should have clarified I didn't mean literally on the release date, I meant more of the time Playstation really started to take traction, which to me is after the release of Final Fantasy VII (1997-1998) - that really seemed to be the point the tide really started to turn away from Nintendo being the console of choice for the average gamer.

So it's 75m now vs. 90m back then? That's a decline of less than 20%.

Well if you look at Virtua Boy sales and compare them to Wii U sales, that's like an increase of 1200%!!!! Nintendo must be really pleased with the sales of the Wii U.

Playstation never really got off the ground until 1997. I apologize for not making that clearer in my original point.