trent44 said:
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. |
Yeah, the GBA was an odd one in that it had peaks at different times in different parts of the world (unlike most consoles where popularity usually peaks at a similar time worldwide).
The main reason I posted this here, though, was so people could get a clearer idea of how GBA performed in relation to Switch. Their early sales were reasonably similar, but Nintendo is already planning to ship more Switches next financial year than GBA ever managed, so if Switch isn't outpacing GBA (which is a little unclear), it almost certainly will be soon.
