atomicblue said:
There's some decent data here (second link of the three): https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/historical_data/index.html
It's still only broken down by financial year, but it gives you a good idea of how GBA performed. It opened pretty strong (about 18ish million shipped in a little over a year) but it also never substantially exceeded that in subsequent years. |
Well those number are interesting to look at.
What is curious is how Game Boy + Game Boy Color were fairly successful in each region having a fairly equal share of sales; where as, with the Game Boy Advance it was extremely lopsided in the Americas being the region upholding over half of the GBA's hardware and Software sales all by itself.
I wonder how that effected its strange worldwide sales curve of having both Year 1 and Year 3 as peaks and Year 2 and Year 4 as down years, where as the Americas alone had a normal sales curve peaking in Year 3, Japan's sales curve Peaked in Year 1 and was down hill its whole life, and the rest of the world seems to have a dip in Year 2 as well.
I wonder why the discrepancy in sales curves among the regions... We know the DS killed its tail, but the GBA's launch curve seems weird looking at it.
