| AngryLittleAlchemist said: So the Gameboy Advance was one of the fastest selling consoles ever? Right? It just got cut off quickly ? Cause that's what I hear a lot, but you're the sales expert. Those "fake" numbers look pretty good though |
Yeah, I think that's an accurate statement. When looking solely at the first years of all consoles, Game Boy Advance is the fastest-selling. GBA still holds up well afterward, but it falls behind Wii at the beginning of its second year, DS in the middle of its second year, PS4 at the end of its third year, and PS2 at the beginning of its fourth year. The next console it falls behind is the PS1 at the end of its sixth year, over two years after it was already succeeded by DS.
GBA definitely sold very quickly; it's Nintendo's third best-selling console all the way up until its 11th year (at which point it had already been discontinued,) which is when the original Game Boy passes 81.51 million.
If you take into account that
1) GBA got a successor after only 3 years and 9 months,
2) GBA sold over 58 million during that time (58.13M in shipments from March 2001 to September 2004: Only three holiday seasons), and
3) GBA sold 15.4 million during the fiscal year in which DS launched,
I think it's fair to say that GBA could have sold much more had DS not cut its legs off.
