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Green098 on 10 December 2017
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VGPolyglot said:
Green098 said:

Although, don't home consoles have a lower bar than handhelds in terms of successfulness? The worst selling Nintendo handheld is at around 70 million and still counting, while on terms of home consoles you've got the Wii U at around 13 million, Gamecube around 20 million and N64 around 30 million. Xbox also did around 30 million and Dreamcast did 8 million. The only major handhelds to do poor numbers were the GameGear and PSVita at around 10 million and 15 million.

I'd say a home console for Nintendo it only needs to sell around 50 million to be a success, but as a portable console and especially if calling it an NDS successor it should really be aiming for at least 60-70 million.

What do we mean by major handhelds? There is also the Atari Lynx, the N-Gage, the WonderSwan, the Neo Geo Pocket and the Microvision.

Sorry I really just meant one's I heard of more as well as a combination of just wanting to mention each one. I'd include the Neo Geo Pocket but when the Atari Lynx came out Atari were out of the popularity they once were and WonderSwan same with Microvision I just didn't know. Really I'd say major handhelds would be any handheld post Gameboy era since it was what really boomed and started/popularised the handheld market and from the major video game companies Nintendo, Sony or Sega at the time they were a popular hardware company.

Last edited by Green098 - on 10 December 2017