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burninmylight on 24 April 2020
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StarDoor said:
burninmylight said:

If you want to go the userbase sales route explain how 3DS games even outsold GBA games with a smaller userbase

What? Seriously, what are you going off of?

Pokemon R/S/E: 22.26m

Pokemon X/Y: 16.13m

Pokemon FR/LG: 10.49m

Pokemon OR/AS: 12.73m

Gen 3: 32.75m    Gen 6: 28.86m

Gen 6 + Gen 7: 51.18m

The 3DS needed Gen 7 to outsell the GBA games. So the answer is simple: eight games from three different gens vs. five across two. Does that explanation work for you, or are you going to show me how to move those goalposts? It's not rocket science.

And that's with the GBA's truncated lifecyle. Four years on the market before it got replaced, as opposed to the 3DS' six.

Okay, I'm not agreeing with the rest of Wyrdness's posts, but your sales numbers argument here is just completely wrong.

First of all, you can't combine the sales of Emerald with Ruby/Sapphire and then say it sold more than X/Y. That's ridiculous. Upgraded versions are almost entirely purchased by people who either already had the originals or wouldn't have purchased the originals to begin with. If you look at every gen's sales, the main titles have sold almost identically for 5 gens straight starting with Ruby/Sapphire, regardless of whether there was a re-release later on.

Secondly, your numbers are incorrect to begin with.

R/S: 16.22 million
Em: 7.06 million
FR/LG: 12.00 million

X/Y: 16.44 million
ORAS: 14.26 million

SuMo: 16.18 million
USUM: 8.70 million

The GBA had a main title, a remake, and an upgraded release. Even taking the less favorable comparison when matching these titles (using SuMo instead of X/Y for the main title,) 3DS comes out on top by a decent margin.

R/S (main) + Em (upgrade) + FR/LG (remake) = 35.28 million
SuMo (main) + USUM (upgrade) + ORAS (remake) = 39.14 million

And if you want a fair comparison of just Gen 6 versus Gen 3:

X/Y + ORAS = 30.70 million
R/S + FR/LG = 28.22 million

That's 2 pairs of games, 2 regions, and 1 gen for each console. 3DS is ahead.

First of all, you can't combine the sales of Emerald with Ruby/Sapphire and then say it sold more than X/Y.

Yes I can. The question was "3DS games" vs. "GBA games", not "base games on 3DS" vs. "base games on GBA". Eight games vs five. Wyrdness doesn't need your help moving goalposts, but I'm sure he appreciates it nonetheless.