Nintendo home consoles or Nintendo handhelds?

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Wman1996 said:

The home console lineup has the benefit of 6 pieces of hardware. The handheld lineup only has 4 (5 if you were to count the Game Boy Color as its own thing).
I'll go home console. It's pretty telling that there are plenty of times where a home console title gets a port or remake on a handheld, but not often the other way around.

While it's one piece of hardware, and technically one generation - from a gamer standpoint, because of the sleeper hit like curve of the Gameboy, it was as though there were two generations. The first one when it launched, and had games like Mystic Quest, Metroid 2, Link's Awakening, Mario and the Six Golden Coins, Kirby's Dreamland that occurred during the late NES/early SNES... and then the Pokemon/GBC era which was a whole lot bigger than the original, and occurred largely during the N64 era.

Bit of trivia - There was this period of time when Nintendo handhelds were their primary source of revenue, despite the fact that the vast majority of their resources were dumped into the home console business, which had investors headscratching as to why they were structured that way. Then the Wii took them all by surprise, and you got that MASSIVE late-06/07/08 spike.

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Spoiler!

In a way, that giant Wii-era spike was another type of GBC.