Will the Switch ever get a Direct competitor?

[zorg1000]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

zorg1000 said:

That's not true in the slightest bit.

Game Gear lifetime shipments-10.62m

Gameboy FY92 shipments-10.67m

 

Gameboy shipped more in the year that Game Gear launched than Game Gear shipped lifetime. This is even true for Europe.

It was doing miles better than the competition (Atari Lynx and PC Engine GT), though, which is why I meant to consider it, too.

It's main Problem was that Sega decided to focus entirely on the Megadrive/Genesis, thus leaving software support for the Game Gear pretty bare and mostly released Master System ports. After 94 it didn't sell much anymore due to this, those 10M came mostly just from the 2 first years.

Doing better than colossal failures is not a reason to be considered.

I dug up some old numbers on neogaf for yearly shipments.

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/retro-sales-age-thread.981407/

FY91-0.20m

FY92-1.70m

FY93-2.45m

FY94-3.50m

FY95-2.40m

FY96-0.37m

 

Compare that to Gameboy

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/nintendo-historical-shipment-data-1983-present.701305/

FY90-3.93m

FY91-8.06m

FY92-10.67m

FY93-7.80m

FY94-7.47m

FY95-5.58m

FY96-4.16m