Global Hardware 27 July 2019

[Bofferbrauer2]

Barkley said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

They probably grouped the Gameboys because they could play each other's games. Sure the GBC had better capabilities, but by that logic, Pro, X and New 3DS would also need to be counted separately.

As for the fourth and sixth year sales, any idea how the NES, SNES and Megadrive/Genesis would fit in these tables?

But my reason wasn't that it was more capable. My reason was that it had 480 exclusive full retail games. Which neither the Pro, X or New 3DS have. It also released 9 years after the original gameboy, not 3.

Of the 667 games released for GB/GBC after the GBC came out only 28% of them worked on the original gameboy. (17 GB games, 180 Compatible GBC games) So 72% of games only worked on the newer model.

I don't think I'd be able to find sales data (other than lifetime) for consoles that old.

Edit: Found Megadrive figures.

Genesis 6th year - 5.12m (1994 calendar year sales, 6th-ish year in Japan, 5th in NA, 4th in EU)

First 4 years - 42.8% of total sales. The later launches in USA and EU give it a much lower percentage, especially as sales in Japan were weak.

Thanks for the effort!

I thought many more games for the GBC were compatible with the OG gameboy. Still, the new 3DS also has exclusive games, although those are very few and far between. But I get your point.